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	* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
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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));
	}

	}

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