"java.io.IOException: The handle is invalid" on Windows NT

[ericjknapp]

Hello,

I am in instructor at a community college and I have many
students who can't get something to work under Windows NT with
jdk1.3. They are trying to perform a simple System.in.read() and
they get this:

java.io.IOException: The handle is invalid
at java.io.FileInputStream.readBytes(Native Method)
at
java.io.FileInputStream.read(FileInputStream.java:183)
at
java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:186)
at
java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:204)
at Demo.main(Demo.java:8)
Exception in thread "main"

I can't reproduce this on my Linux box and the students in the
class who are running Windows 98 also are not having any
problems.

Can anyone help?

Thanks...