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X-Original-Date: 20 Dec 1995 10:42:12 +0000


In article <4b423t$1k@netlab.cs.rpi.edu> kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) writes:

> Basically, the only real portable solution in this case is to not use
> cout, but a reference or pointer to a ostream, perhaps thus:
> 
>     ostream&        output( getOuptutStream( filename ) ) ;

That's what I do, and others reading my code ask "what are these cinfo,
cwarn, cerr streams, why don't you use cout?"

Isn't it annoying that something as simple as redirecting stdout is still
being discussed?

A.

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