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What are Filter Streams?

Tests whether you know FilterInputStream/FilterOutputStream are the decorator-pattern base classes that wrap another stream to add behavior (buffering, data type conversion, checksums) without changing the underlying stream's interface -- the mechanism behind classes like BufferedInputStream and DataInputStream.

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