Writing 8 bitStrings to files

Question

The following code for writing strings to files works if I use FileWriter but FileWriter writes 16bit characters and I require 8-bit bytes and so I am trying to use FileOutputStream. The program is not compiling properly and i am geting the message cannot resolve fw,write. does anyoneknow how i can get it to work
thankyou
import java.io.*;
public class CopyString3
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
String st = "abcdefghijklm";
write(st);
public static void write(String ma)throws IOException
File file = new File("f:/sitemp/sifile.txt");
FileOutputStream fw = new FileOutputStream(file);
fw.write(ma);
fw.close();
}

Answer 1

use the getBytes() method ie. fw.write(ma.getBytes());
This sample works peoperly under JDK 1.3.1_01
It writes exactly 13 bytes!!
import java.io.*;
public class CopyString3
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
String st = "abcdefghijklm";
write(st);
public static void write(String ma)throws IOException
File file = new File("file.txt");
FileOutputStream fw = new FileOutputStream(file);
fw.write(ma.getBytes()); // I MODIFIED THIS LINE
fw.close();