Re: Plans on iostream-lib

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From: John Edstrom
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 12:05

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In article <9208042134.AA18130@cygnus.com> bothner@cygnus.com writes:
>marc@pxcl1.gi.rwth-aachen.de (Marc van Woerkom) writes:
>
>> -> Is it a future goal, to make the iostream package more compatible
>>    with cfront's one?  (e.g. the examples in Stroustrup's C++PL2)
>
>Somewhat.  The next release will use multiple inhertiance,
>and template-based iomanipulators.  Which specific example
>in C++PL2 doesn't work?
>
>> -> Are there plans for a 'binary filemode', to allow more general
>>   I/O?
>
>I don't know.  What is a "binary filemode" (for Unix) and why do you
>need it?
>

A bit off topic but how about mapping memory to files?  That's
something I'd like to see.  Just a suggestion.

>
>	--Per Bothner
>Cygnus Support     bothner@cygnus.com
>

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