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package java.io;


/**
 * Convenience class for reading character files. The constructors of this
 * class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer
 * size are appropriate. To specify these values yourself, construct an
 * InputStreamReader on a FileInputStream.
 *
 * <p><code>FileReader</code> is meant for reading streams of characters.
 * For reading streams of raw bytes, consider using a
 * <code>FileInputStream</code>.
 *
 * @see InputStreamReader
 * @see FileInputStream
 *
 * @author Mark Reinhold
 * @since JDK1.1
 */
public class FileReader extends InputStreamReader {

 /**
 * Creates a new <tt>FileReader</tt>, given the name of the
 * file to read from.
 *
 * @param fileName the name of the file to read from
 * @exception FileNotFoundException if the named file does not exist,
 * is a directory rather than a regular file,
 * or for some other reason cannot be opened for
 * reading.
 */
 public FileReader(String fileName) throws FileNotFoundException {
 super(new FileInputStream(fileName));
 }

 /**
 * Creates a new <tt>FileReader</tt>, given the <tt>File</tt>
 * to read from.
 *
 * @param file the <tt>File</tt> to read from
 * @exception FileNotFoundException if the file does not exist,
 * is a directory rather than a regular file,
 * or for some other reason cannot be opened for
 * reading.
 */
 public FileReader(File file) throws FileNotFoundException {
 super(new FileInputStream(file));
 }

 /**
 * Creates a new <tt>FileReader</tt>, given the
 * <tt>FileDescriptor</tt> to read from.
 *
 * @param fd the FileDescriptor to read from
 */
 public FileReader(FileDescriptor fd) {
 super(new FileInputStream(fd));
 }

}