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import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.Writer;

/* 
 * JCommon : a free general purpose class library for the Java(tm) platform
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 * ------------
 * IOUtils.java
 * ------------
 * (C)opyright 2002-2004, by Thomas Morgner and Contributors.
 *
 * Original Author:  Thomas Morgner;
 * Contributor(s):   David Gilbert (for Object Refinery Limited);
 *
 * $Id: IOUtils.java,v 1.8 2009/01/22 08:34:58 taqua Exp $
 *
 * Changes
 * -------
 * 26-Jan-2003 : Initial version
 * 23-Feb-2003 : Documentation
 * 25-Feb-2003 : Fixed Checkstyle issues (DG);
 * 29-Apr-2003 : Moved to jcommon
 * 04-Jan-2004 : Fixed JDK 1.2.2 issues with createRelativeURL;
 *               added support for query strings within these urls (TM);
 */


/**
 * The IOUtils provide some IO related helper methods.
 *
 * @author Thomas Morgner.
 */
public class Main {
  /**
   * Copies the contents of the Reader into the Writer, until the end of the 
   * stream has been reached.
   *
   * @param in  the reader from which to read.
   * @param out  the writer where the data is written to.
   * @param buffersize  the buffer size.
   *
   * @throws IOException if a IOError occurs.
   */
  public void copyWriter(final Reader in, final Writer out, 
          final int buffersize)
      throws IOException {
      // create a 4kbyte buffer to read the file
      final char[] bytes = new char[buffersize];

      // the input stream does not supply accurate available() data
      // the zip entry does not know the size of the data
      int bytesRead = in.read(bytes);
      while (bytesRead > -1) {
          out.write(bytes, 0, bytesRead);
          bytesRead = in.read(bytes);
      }
  }
}