My requirement is that I should be able to write into a file, using App1, and read from the same file using App2. I have used the same procedure that you have , Mindy, but my problem is that if my text has tab spaces ('/t'), then while reading the file, it diplays junk, where it should display tab spaces . At the time I posted the first query, it wasn't reading new line either, but I overcame that using BufferedReader.readLine()
The problem now is with diplaying tab spaces.
Here is what I am doing to read -