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Question: I am writing a program in which I ask it to enter a name, and I want it to say if it is correct. My problem is that it

Question: What advantages does WinCE have over other handheld palmtop operating systems such as the Newton and others? Answer: Wow! Now that’s a leading question. Here’s the short version of

Question: How do you determine the file size of files which are larger than 2GB? Also, how do you seek into a files larger than 2GB?Thank you Answer: You might

Question: Is there anyway with java to get a file’s date? Answer: Unfortunately, there seems to be no platform-independent way of doing this.The lastModified() method in java.io.File returns a system

Question: How can I run a Java server application as an NT service? Answer: You can run a Java server appliation as an NT service if you use theMicrosoft SDK

Question: How can I set the icon image for a java.awt.Dialog like you can fora java.awt.Frame using setIconImage? Answer: Unfortunately you cannot do this. A Dialog inherits the icon of

Question: How can I implement a “default” button in a window? Answer: You can explicitly request the focus using requestFocus(), but thebutton can still lose the focus. Therefore you have

Question: I’m reading a book on Java 1.1 that refers to various classesthat do not exist in Microsoft Visual J++ Professional Edition,Version 1.1, which apparently installs V1.02 libraries. How canI

Question: Is there a way to open a file for writing in append mode? Answer: The FileOutputStream and FileWriter classes both have constructors thatwith the following signature (String, boolean). The