writing the files for particular time

Hi friends,

i have a quick question

i have .txt files a, b ,c,.....
i have to write the these files in to single file for particular time period lest take it as some 60 sec and have to save in pdf format
till for 60 sec we have to write to single file and save it by naming it with time stamp
after 60 sec, we have rite to new file from the cursor were it got stopped

please anyone can hlep on this.

Thanks,
damu

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db

Hi Darryl ,

I donot have knowledge of "cross postings"

but my intension is to get hlep from others by posting it in multiple forums

please can you help me atleast

Thanks,
Damodar.

You can take hint from log4j source.

It creates a new file, as soon as the existing file reaches the specified size. In your case, it needs to be time based rather than size based.

use timertask to send the time elapsed event to your writer.