Quoting Jon Schewe (jpschewe at mtu.net):
> > > How can I get a StringReader into a class that is part of the InputStream
> > > hierarchy?
> > > 
> > > I use to use the StringBufferInputStream, but that is deprecated.
> > > 
> How about using java.io.ByteArrayInputStream?  I do find it irritating that
> there isn't a way to get from Reader to InputStream, but there is a way to get
> from InputStream to Reader, java.io.InputStreamReader.

I ended up using the ByteArrayInputStream. :-(
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