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file read behave differently in Window / Unix

 
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Hello friends..

I am stuck in tricky situation and would appreciate if someone can give me some direction on following issue,

Working environment is -
JDK 6, Websphere 8

My EAR has an EJB, that EJB reads file content from remote system and provide the data as byte [ ]


In my local, using Websphere @ Windows platform, returned byte [ ] is different from Websphere on AIX platform

for new line on Windows I am getting - 13, 10
and on AIX I get - 10


ASCII Character Codes
10 \n (NL)
13 \r (CR)



in local (Windows) env. I can get file and that remains well formatted... but file downloaded using same EAR in dev (on AIX) file content keep continue to same line.

if I open same file with Notepad++, textpad or any other editor format of that file remains good.. but since Notepad is default editor I need to address the issue...

please let me know if you can give me some clue / direction...

regards..




 
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That's normal. Different operating systems use different characters for end-of-line.

Windows uses CR LF (ASCII codes 13 and 10). Most Unix-like operating systems such as AIX use only LF (ASCII code 10).

Is this causing a problem in your application?
 
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San Metro wrote:but since Notepad is default editor I need to address the issue...


In which case, why not change your default editor?

The fact is that this is a Windows problem, not a Java or other OS one, because it's the only major OS that continues to use that ridiculous line terminator (which is actually a holdover from the days of line printers).

If you use methods like BufferedReader.readLine() in your Java programs, they will work correctly for any OS; and pretty much any utility you use in Linux, Unix or Apple OS/X will deal with Windows text files perfectly happily.

HIH

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This is on a tangent but why do you need an EJB to do that? Seems like a sledgehammer to hang up a small picture frame.
 
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Winston Gutkowski wrote: . . . a holdover from the days of line printers). . . .

I remember those infernal machines well. No, it was a TTY (=Teletype), which was even worse. The only good thing about it was the you had to push the key marked “Campbell Ritchie” to terminate a line. You then had to push the key marked LF to move onto the next line. At least if you wanted to read the printout you did
 
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thank you all for quick replies...

why we are using EJB - sorry it might look like excuse.....
this solution is implemented in approx. 2002 or bit later and currently using Java 5 / Websphere 6 which works good... (provide same output on Win/AIX),
I am participating to upgrade the Java 6 / Websphere 8;

I am trying to debug more on how EJB is getting the stream (byte [ ])..

thank you & regards..
 
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:No, it was a TTY (=Teletype), which was even worse.


You're probably right. In Solaris (don't know about Linux), terminal devices are still called /dev/tty...

Computer History 101.

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Winston Gutkowski wrote:
(don't know about Linux), terminal devices are still called /dev/tty...



They abound:
[obu@obutest ~]$ uname -a
Linux obutest 2.6.18-371.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri Mar 28 05:53:58 EDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[obu@obutest ~]$ ls /dev/tty[0-9]*
/dev/tty0 /dev/tty12 /dev/tty16 /dev/tty2 /dev/tty23 /dev/tty27 /dev/tty30 /dev/tty34 /dev/tty38 /dev/tty41 /dev/tty45 /dev/tty49 /dev/tty52 /dev/tty56 /dev/tty6 /dev/tty63
/dev/tty1 /dev/tty13 /dev/tty17 /dev/tty20 /dev/tty24 /dev/tty28 /dev/tty31 /dev/tty35 /dev/tty39 /dev/tty42 /dev/tty46 /dev/tty5 /dev/tty53 /dev/tty57 /dev/tty60 /dev/tty7
/dev/tty10 /dev/tty14 /dev/tty18 /dev/tty21 /dev/tty25 /dev/tty29 /dev/tty32 /dev/tty36 /dev/tty4 /dev/tty43 /dev/tty47 /dev/tty50 /dev/tty54 /dev/tty58 /dev/tty61 /dev/tty8
/dev/tty11 /dev/tty15 /dev/tty19 /dev/tty22 /dev/tty26 /dev/tty3 /dev/tty33 /dev/tty37 /dev/tty40 /dev/tty44 /dev/tty48 /dev/tty51 /dev/tty55 /dev/tty59 /dev/tty62 /dev/tty9


 
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