Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news-peer.in.tum.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jochen2@brenz.com (Jochen Brenzlinger) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Diff. between FileWriter("f.txt") and OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("f.txt")) ? Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 26 Aug 2011 04:52:14 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4e57267d$0$6552$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Aug 2011 06:52:14 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 33b8f871.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=Z_L:9CR[O@UAX0F2i>:6:O1M6E[5IUUbcKA2l^A14d]]KebZ[ X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7395 As you know there are two ways of writing text into a text file: 1.) BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("MyFile.txt"))); out.write(s); and 2.) BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("MyFile.txt")); out.write(s); Whats the difference? Jochen