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A stream is an abstract representation of a sequence of bytes such as a file, an I/O device, or a TCP/IP socket. Through this abstraction, different devices can be accessed with the same process, and similar code can be used to read data from a file input stream, as can be used to read data from a network input stream, for example. Furthermore, the programmer’s need to worry about the actual physical mechanism of the device is removed.
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© 2004 Christian Nagel, Ajit Mungale, Vinod Kumar, Nauman Laghari, Andrew Krowczyk, Tim Parker, Srinivasa Sivakumar, and Alexandru Serban
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Nagel, C. et al. (2004). Streams in .NET. In: Pro .NET 1.1 Network Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0660-6_2
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