posted 21 years ago
I take it back. writeUTF is appropriate to use for the header/schema information. I was just making it harder on myself than I needed to by explicitly writing the two-byte length info when the writeUTF takes care of this for me. :roll: I still think I can't use writeUTF with the data though because my requirements specify "no separators between fields, each field fixed length at maximum specified in schema...all fields (which are text only), contain only 8 bit characters, null terminated if less than the maximum length for the field."
[ October 03, 2002: Message edited by: Junilu Lacar ]