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lansche@torolab6.VNET.IBM.COM (Martin Lansche) writes about iostreams: 

>  If you are doing stdio-type of programming, then (1) [streams] is
> also useful. If you are doing PM programming, it is not.

Actually, strstreams are very useful even if you never use stdio. 
Temporary formatting buffers are a breeze:

char aBuffer[100];
ostrstream Out(aBuffer,100);

Out<<"This is a double: "<<1.34<<endl<<"An int: "<<234<<ends;

They are ever so much easier to use than sprintf and safer; it's
typesafe and it won't overflow the array.  If you don't construct it
with a buffer it dynamically allocates one for you and grows it as
necessary.  Don't forget the ends at the end or you won't have a null
terminated buffer.

Chris