Just Java™ 2, Fifth Edition

Chapter 13. Simple Input Output

• Design Philosophy

• File and Filedescriptor Classes

• Output

• Outputting Double-Byte Characters

• Other Writer Wrappers

• Outputting ASCII Characters and Binary Values

• Input

• Reader Wrappers

• Inputting ASCII Characters and Binary Values

• Input Stream Wrappers

• Further Reading

• Exercises

• Some Light Relief—The Illegal Prime Number!

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SCSI-wuzzy caused no fuss.

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Designing input/output (henceforth “I/O”) libraries is a lot harder than it might appear. There have been some spectacular blunders in the past. One language, Algol 60, gave up on I/O altogether, leaving it out of the language specification ...