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From: leo@atcmp.nl (Leo  Willems)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: istream::tie
Keywords: istream tie
Message-ID: <540@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 24 Nov 89 13:15:14 GMT
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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In our streams library (1.2E Glockenspiel) class istream contains the
member function: ostream* istream::tie(ostream*)

All the manual says is that an ostream is tied to an istream and that
the use of this function is discouraged

What is the use of tie()?

Thanks.


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