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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));
      }
  
  }
  