🚀 go-pugleaf

I wanted to write a routine which would read one file and write another, a line
at a time.  I was rather annoyed to find that the "get" routine for "istream"s
left the '\n' in the stream instead of skipping past it.  Surely, if I want to
read a line at a time, I'm not interested in the line terminator (which I
*know* the value of because I have, implicitly or otherwise, specified it).

Anyway, I wrote a quick test program and found, to my annoyance, that each
output line appears the line after I expected it to.  Here is what I wrote:

# include <stream.h>

char	buf [82];

main ()
{	while (cin.get (buf, 80))
	{	char	c;
		cin.get (c);
		cout << buf << "\n";
	}
}

In desperation, I put a "cout.flush();" after line 9, which didn't help.

C++ Version 1.1, BSD 4.2, VAX-11/750.
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