--- /home/tromey/gnu/Nightly/classpath/classpath/gnu/java/io/Base64InputStream.java	2004-11-08 02:18:56.000000000 -0700
+++ gnu/java/io/Base64InputStream.java	2004-05-04 02:18:21.000000000 -0600
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Base64InputStream.java -- base-64 input stream.
-   Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU Classpath.
 
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@
 
 package gnu.java.io;
 
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.FilterInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -92,30 +90,6 @@
     eof = false;
   }
 
-  // Class method.
-  // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  /**
-   * Decode a single Base-64 string to a byte array.
-   *
-   * @param base64 The Base-64 encoded data.
-   * @return The decoded bytes.
-   * @throws IOException If the given data do not compose a valid Base-64
-   *  sequence.
-   */
-  public static byte[] decode(String base64) throws IOException
-  {
-    Base64InputStream in =
-      new Base64InputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(base64.getBytes()));
-    ByteArrayOutputStream out =
-      new ByteArrayOutputStream((int) (base64.length() / 0.666));
-    byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
-    int len;
-    while ((len = in.read(buf)) != -1)
-      out.write(buf, 0, len);
-    return out.toByteArray();
-  }
-
   // Instance methods.
   // ------------------------------------------------------------------------