How to get text from a SharedByteArrayInputStream

When I get a BodyPart that's an instance of com.sun.mail.util.SharedByteArrayInputStream, how do I retrieve the text from this stream? Treating it as an InputStream and reading the bytes into a buffer yeilds what looks like gibberish. Anybody know how to do this?

Any help would be appreciated!

thanks,

bear

[347 byte] By [bootedbear] at [2007-9-26 2:12:05]