Java: Difference between PrintStream and PrintWriter

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Hi,

What is the difference between PrintStream and PrintWriter? They have much methods in common. I always mix up this classes because of that reason. And I think we can use them for exactly the same. But there has to be a difference. Otherwise there was only one class.

I first searched on StackOverflow, but not yet this question.

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