Need help with writing to a file

Question

I am writing a program that is a file sharing program where i read in bytes from a socket in a BufferedReader into a char[]. Then i want to write to a file using FileOutputStream which only lets me write with a byte[]. Is there a way to read in the info into a byte[] rather a char[]?

Answer 1

may be this code helps
import java.io.*;
public class cp
        public static void main(String args[])
                try
                File my=new File("source.txt");
                FileReader fr=new FileReader(my);
                BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(fr);
                String a;
                FileWriter fw=new FileWriter(args[5]);
                while((a=br.readLine())!=null)
                        System.out.println(a);
fw.write(a);
fw.close();
                }catch(Exception e){}