who isn't sick of converting the freaking scripts? this negates the need

sku.0/sys.server/compiled/game/script/developer/file_access.java

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+package script.developer;
+
+import script.*;
+import script.base_class.*;
+import script.combat_engine.*;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Hashtable;
+import java.util.Vector;
+import script.base_script;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.FileWriter;
+
+public class file_access extends script.base_script
+{
+    public file_access()
+    {
+    }
+    public static String readTextFile(String fileName) throws InterruptedException
+    {
+        String result = null;
+        File f = new File(fileName);
+        if (f.exists())
+        {
+            long len = f.length();
+            if (len > 0)
+            {
+                try
+                {
+                    FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(f);
+                    byte[] buf = new byte[(int)len];
+                    inputStream.read(buf);
+                    result = new String(buf);
+                }
+                catch(Exception e)
+                {
+                    obj_id self = getSelf();
+                    sendSystemMessageTestingOnly(self, "An exception occurred while trying to read " + fileName);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+    public static boolean isWritable(String fileName) throws InterruptedException
+    {
+        boolean result = false;
+        File f = new File(fileName);
+        if (f.exists())
+        {
+            if (f.canWrite())
+            {
+                result = true;
+            }
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+    public static boolean writeTextFile(String fileName, String fileContents) throws InterruptedException
+    {
+        boolean result = false;
+        File f = new File(fileName);
+        if (!f.exists())
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                f.createNewFile();
+            }
+            catch(Exception e)
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        if (f.canWrite())
+        {
+            f.delete();
+            try
+            {
+                if (f.createNewFile())
+                {
+                    FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(f);
+                    writer.write(fileContents);
+                    writer.close();
+                    result = true;
+                }
+            }
+            catch(Exception e)
+            {
+                obj_id self = getSelf();
+                sendSystemMessageTestingOnly(self, "failed to write " + fileName + " : " + e);
+            }
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+}