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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Zortech C++ and no iostreams
Message-ID: <2612@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 90 19:14:41 GMT
References: <1990Aug2.143949.19266@cs.columbia.edu>
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <1990Aug2.143949.19266@cs.columbia.edu> kearns@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns) writes:
<An earlier message mentioned that Zortech C++ 2.1 does not include
<support for iostreams.  Is this true?  iostreams is the standard form
<of input/output, and is much more convenient than streams.  It would
<be a glaring ommission if true.

Quite true, ZTC++ does not include iostreams. The reason is that it's
copyrighted by AT&T, and it is very difficult to produce a clone that's
"the same only different" to avoid being sued.

Iostreams is *not* part of the standard. There is a group working on
a specification for it for inclusion in the ANSI C++ standard, but it
isn't there yet. When a draft spec is available, we'll go to work to
implement it.