[...suggestion to implement select in java snipped...]
>Can this be done, and if so:

Probably . . . certainly for the only platform we care about here ;)

>                             why has it not been done already?

Because it's platform dependent. Because no one has yet provided an
argument for it that was strong enough to warrent creating that
functionality on platforms which don't support it natively. -=Chris

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