Readers and Stream classes can be chained?

[Ghazala Islam]

Hi,
Can we chain Reader classes with Stream classes?One of the practice exam has correct answere for reading a large text file like this:
new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("file.name")));

[Barry Gaunt]

See that InputStreamReader class? That's the bridging class that does the trick.
There is also an OutputStreamWriter for going the other way.
-Barry

[Ghazala Islam]

you mean to say we can pass FileInputStream as parameter because it is InputStreamreader,but if it was Buffered reader?