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Determining the end of a stream -- What is used?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Afergan)
Sun Nov 5 18:25:15 1995

Date: Sun, 5 Nov 95 16:51:05 EST
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Mike Afergan <mikea@abba.ai.mit.edu>

  What exactly is used to determine the end of a stream?  In the API,
several functions do diffrent things at the end of a stream (i.e., read to
the end).  How is this end determined?  Is it a null character, or does it
actually keep track of how long the stream is?

  Thanks,

  -- Mike

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