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From: dpsm AT en DOT com (Dale P. Smith)
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Subject: Re: reading binary I/O with iostream
Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 15:20:47 GMT
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thore AT ts DOT go DOT dlr DOT de (Thore Herberg) wrote:
>Is there a way to persuade "cin" and "cout" to read and write
>
>data in binary format (like fwrite and fread) ? None of the books on C++ that I have
>
>skimmed trough so far have ever mentioned I/O handling of data in binary format.

You can do
	ifstream SomeName(filename, ios:in|ios::binary);
in DJGPP.  Watcom C++ (I have 10.0a) has ios::text and ios::binary.

I don't do that much C++, but maybe these could be applied to cin and
cout with something like:
	cout.setf(ios::binary);
???

>Where can I find a *complete* documentation of the standart C++ libraries ? 

There is the info files from GNU, P.J. Plauger has a book on the
standard C++ libraries, and as always: "Reach for the Source, Luke!"

Dale

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