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Martin Gregorie
Peace. I keep forgetting about JWS applications, applets and similar. MyThat was my point! Java provides this. I read Martin's post as saying he
thought that feature was "not usually all that useful in practice", and
i disagree.
main point is the one that we agree on: readLine() doesn't belong as a
BufferedReader method.
Almost everything I've written has been code that in practise never
changes platforms and, judging by the number of threads on this NG that
discuss embedding OS-specific code and/or shell commands in Java
applications, its pretty far from those people's minds too.
Even the related use reading DOS/Windows text files on Linux boxes or
vice versa doesn't feature very often in my requirements, but ymmv.