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From: "Steven J. Zeil" <zeil AT cs DOT odu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: ios::binary
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:13:15 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 2 Oct 1995, Pieter Kunst wrote:

> In article <812397940snz AT chocolat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> PS AT chocolat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk writes:
> >
> In the upcoming Standard C++ Library (see: P.J. Plauger, 
> "The Draft Standard C++ Library", Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-117003-1)
> six constants are defined for 'openmode':
> 
>    app, ate, binary, in, out, trunc (p.113 Plauger)



Just a note on reading the future of C++:

Plauger's book is still useful for insight into motivation and use of 
broad features in the proposed library, but it is badly out-of-date in 
some places  (a danger when writing a book about something that is still 
in a state of flux).

Questions like this are better resolved by reference to the ANSI 
committee's public draft of the proposed standard, available at 
http://www.cygnus.com/~mrs/wp-draft/

A quick check of Chapter 27 of that draft, however, shows that the above 
6 names are still the only proposed constants for openmode.

SJZ