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From: "George Foot" <george DOT foot AT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
To: "Thiago F.G. Albuquerque" <thiagofga AT ambr DOT com DOT br>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:48:04 +0000
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Subject: Re: libg++ and stdc++
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On  2 Oct 98 at 23:43, Thiago F.G. Albuquerque wrote:

> Did you know that in order to use the string class in your program, you
> have to #include - not "string" or "cstring" (both available in cxx's
> include directory)- but "_String.h"? What a pity the docs don't say a line
> about this (or at least I couldn't find it). Does anybody know where can I
> find information on which header goes with each class?

Section 8.2 of the FAQ says this:

| didn't install it, GCC won't find them.  Files whose names
| usually start with a capital letter, on MS-DOS have an
| underscore `_' prepended so they can be distinguished from
| `complex.h', `regex.h' and the like under case-insensitive DOS. 
| Change `Complex.h' to `_Complex.h', and `String.h' to
| `_String.h' in your source, and GCC will find them.  The same
| goes for the header `iostreamP.h'--you should use `_iostreamP.h'
| instead.  If you don't have the underscore `_' on your keyboard,
| you might find using `strclass.h' instead of `_String.h' easier.

Does this help?  I don't use C++ so I don't know, but it seems 
to be explaining what you asked about.

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