Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tdatirv!sarima From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: iostream question Message-ID: <132@tdatirv.UUCP> Date: 27 Aug 90 16:31:40 GMT References: <127@tdatirv.UUCP> <2667@dataio.Data-IO.COM> Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine Lines: 41 In article <2667@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes: >Second, a large part of the functionality of iostreams is contained in >the header files (one tendency of C++!). A large part of the functionality >is also not available as a specification. This means that in order to >clone iostreams, we'd have to largely plagarize AT&T's code, which is >copyrighted. Trying to figure out a non-infringing same-only-different >is an extremely difficult task, and we do not have the resources to >do a 'clean room' approach like Phoenix did with the IBM BIOS. We do >not wish to steal AT&T's proprietary code. Thanks for the response. This, unfortunately, still leaves me in the unpleasant position of witing code that is already essentially out of date; it will simply not be portable to other version 2.0 C++ compilers. Considering that I am working (in my limited spare time) on a project I would like to sell, this is a serious limitation. So, to all of you out there in netland - is there any way I can get a copy of those blasted header files for iostreams!!!! Then I could at least write my code in a portable manner, by implementing the rest of it myself. (This btw is why I have been looking for a good book on iostreams, but even the best I have found yet is not good enough to write a matching implementation - it simply does not cover some of the advanced features like (oh blast I forget what they are called - you know, those functionoids you insert into a stream to change its internal state during I/O)). >Zortech is committed to fully supporting the evolving ANSI C++ standard >and will implement an iostreams to Jerry's new spec. In general I have been quite pleased with you support of this. ><(P.S. does the new update from Zortech contain the iostream library?) > >No Sigh, oh well, I shall just have to wait for 2.2 before I spend money on an upgrade. ---------------------------- uunet!tdatirv!sarima (aka Stanley Friesen)