Open File, Close, Delete -- Will Not Delete

When I'm reading or writing to a text file, I use the standard
FileInputStream and DataInputStream (of course, I use the output streams
for writing).  I close the file stream when I'm done with it (as I learned
from examples).  Whenever I try to delete a file I've recently read from
(or written to), I find I can't delete it.  I finally write a method in my
file admin class that will try to delete a file, check if it was
successful, and if not, will do a deleteOnExit().

So am I doing something wrong that I can't delete a recently used file?  If
so, what?

Thanks!

Hal

I faced a similar problem, I opened files with deleteOnExit and they were
not deleted. I solved the problem by closing explicitelly all streams:

before I had :
dis = new DataInputStream( new FileInputStream( ...
..
dis.close()

After I had (and it works but I don't know why exactly) :
fis=new FileInputStream(
dis = new DataInputStream( fis )
...
fis.close()
dis.close()

Hope this helps

Jacques Desmazieres

"Hal Vaughan" <hal@thresholddigital.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> When I'm reading or writing to a text file, I use the standard
> FileInputStream and DataInputStream (of course, I use the output streams
> for writing).  I close the file stream when I'm done with it (as I learned
> from examples).  Whenever I try to delete a file I've recently read from
> (or written to), I find I can't delete it.  I finally write a method in my
> file admin class that will try to delete a file, check if it was
> successful, and if not, will do a deleteOnExit().
>
> So am I doing something wrong that I can't delete a recently used file?
If
> so, what?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Hal