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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:03:29 GMT
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Kevin O'Dwyer wrote:

> I am doing some php3/MySQL stuff here.  php3 uses a lot of C language, so I
> figured just learn the whole C language.  Got the C++ book by Stephen Davis,

Why did you get a C++ book if you wanted to learn C?

> and tried to install the GNU C++ for Windows/NT. (as if the dad of three
> pre-teens can crash-learn anything!)
> 
> As a function check, I tried to compile this simple code below, also taken
> from the CD ROM included with the book.  But it stumbles over the included
> file iostream.h.

Actually, <iostream.h> is non-standard (although DJGPP supports it).
You should be using <iostream> anyway.  Your C++ book is out-of-date.

> The compiler finds errors in iostream.h.

But this shouldn't happen.

> FIRST FEW LINES OF iostream.h:
> =========================
> 
> #ifndef _IOSTREAM_H
> #ifdef __GNUG__
> #pragma interface
> #endif
> #define _IOSTREAM_H

At this point you are missing the line

#include <streambuf.h>

This would explain the errors you were getting.  But I don't see
how this line could be absent in the first place - perhaps someone
else knows.  What versions of DJGPP and GCC are you using?