2006-07-16 Thomas Minor <1nocentrabidlamb@sexMagnet.com>

            Mark Wielaard  <mark@klomp.org>

       * java/io/PrintStream.java: Added four constructors, for File and
       String describing a filename with or without explicit encoding.

2 files changed, 78 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2a6dc5333..4bbfa698a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-07-16  Thomas Minor  <1nocentrabidlamb@sexMagnet.com>
+	    Mark Wielaard  <mark@klomp.org>
+
+	* java/io/PrintStream.java: Added four constructors, for File and
+	String describing a filename with or without explicit encoding.
+
 2006-07-16  Sven de Marothy  <sven@physto.se>
 
 	* javax/rmi/ssl/SslRMIServerSocketFactory.java,
diff --git a/java/io/PrintStream.java b/java/io/PrintStream.java
index 99af25583..98461db2b 100644
--- a/java/io/PrintStream.java
+++ b/java/io/PrintStream.java
@@ -87,8 +87,76 @@ public class PrintStream extends FilterOutputStream
   private boolean auto_flush;
 
   /**
-   * This method intializes a new <code>PrintStream</code> object to write
-   * to the specified output sink.
+   * This method initializes a new <code>PrintStream</code> object to write
+   * to the specified output File. Doesn't autoflush.
+   *
+   * @param file The <code>File</code> to write to.
+   * @throws FileNotFoundException if an error occurs while opening the file.
+   *
+   * @since 1.5
+   */
+  public PrintStream (File file)
+    throws FileNotFoundException
+  {
+    this (new FileOutputStream(file), false);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * This method initializes a new <code>PrintStream</code> object to write
+   * to the specified output File. Doesn't autoflush.
+   *
+   * @param file The <code>File</code> to write to.
+   * @param encoding The name of the character encoding to use for this
+   * object.
+   * @throws FileNotFoundException If an error occurs while opening the file.
+   * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException If the charset specified by
+   * <code>encoding</code> is invalid.
+   *
+   * @since 1.5
+   */
+  public PrintStream (File file, String encoding)
+    throws FileNotFoundException,UnsupportedEncodingException
+  {
+    this (new FileOutputStream(file), false, encoding);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * This method initializes a new <code>PrintStream</code> object to write
+   * to the specified output File. Doesn't autoflush.
+   *
+   * @param fileName The name of the <code>File</code> to write to.
+   * @throws FileNotFoundException if an error occurs while opening the file,
+   *
+   * @since 1.5
+   */
+  public PrintStream (String fileName)
+    throws FileNotFoundException
+  {
+    this (new FileOutputStream(new File(fileName)), false);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * This method initializes a new <code>PrintStream</code> object to write
+   * to the specified output File. Doesn't autoflush.
+   *
+   * @param fileName The name of the <code>File</code> to write to.
+   * @param encoding The name of the character encoding to use for this
+   * object.
+   * @throws FileNotFoundException if an error occurs while opening the file.
+   * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException If the charset specified by
+   * <code>encoding</code> is invalid.
+   *
+   * @since 1.5
+   */
+  public PrintStream (String fileName, String encoding)
+      throws FileNotFoundException,UnsupportedEncodingException
+  {
+    this (new FileOutputStream(new File(fileName)), false, encoding);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * This method initializes a new <code>PrintStream</code> object to write
+   * to the specified output sink. Doesn't autoflush.
    *
    * @param out The <code>OutputStream</code> to write to.
    */
@@ -98,7 +166,7 @@ public class PrintStream extends FilterOutputStream
   }
 
   /**
-   * This method intializes a new <code>PrintStream</code> object to write
+   * This method initializes a new <code>PrintStream</code> object to write
    * to the specified output sink.  This constructor also allows "auto-flush"
    * functionality to be specified where the stream will be flushed after
    * every <code>print</code> or <code>println</code> call, when the 
@@ -127,7 +195,7 @@ public class PrintStream extends FilterOutputStream
   }
 
   /**
-   * This method intializes a new <code>PrintStream</code> object to write
+   * This method initializes a new <code>PrintStream</code> object to write
    * to the specified output sink.  This constructor also allows "auto-flush"
    * functionality to be specified where the stream will be flushed after
    * every <code>print</code> or <code>println</code> call, when the