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io problem

Posted by tt on April 20, 2001 at 12:53 AM

hi
suppose we read from a file by using any stream say fileinputstream as
fileinputstream fis =new fileinputstream("one.java");
int c;
while((c=fis.read())!=-1)
System.out.print(c);
my question is
1. why can't we declare the variable c within the while loop as
while((int c=fis.read())!=-1)
2.when we output the result using system.out.println we get bytes as output,however when send the output to a file using fileoutputstream the file appears the same as input .why is the difference in this output by both streams.
thankx in advance
tt