The I/O Stream class defines objects which accepts a sequence of characters to and from a Transport object The input and output stream are mainly derived from the stream class and contains much of the same functionality. The main difference is that the I/O streams also contains methods for reading and writing to a transport.
An input stream is a stream that can read data from a transport and via a Channel object putting the data down to the application.
The output stream is similar to the generic stream
definition in that it has a superset of methods. The param
parameter and the mode
parameter can be used for whatever purpose
suited.
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