intermediateFile I/O & NIO

What is the difference between byte streams and character streams in Java I/O — when do you use InputStream/OutputStream vs Reader/Writer?

Tests whether you know binary data needs byte streams while text data is better handled by character-aware Reader/Writer classes.

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