>>>>> "Jim" == Jim C <jlistnews@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Jim> So if there is a StringBufferInputStream, you would think that there Jim> would be a StringBufferOutputStream. Jim> Any ideas as to why there isn't?? StringBufferInputStream is part of the old, deprecated 1.0 I/O framework, which was lax about differentiating between bytes and chars. You want StringReader and StringWriter instead, or perhaps CharArrayWriter. I don't know why there are two of these -- weird. Tom -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list