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From: ahodgson@athena.mit.edu (Antony Hodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Assigning cout in Turbo C++
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Date: 15 Mar 91 17:57:46 GMT
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In article <27DEC60D.18984@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> walkerd@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (David Walker) writes:
>Summary : Can you reassign cout to a file?

>All I want to do is reassign cout to a file so that all screen
>output becomes file output.

I'm not sure if you can simply assign cout to a file, but the following
works (I think - I did it once and don't have my code close at hand) and
probably does what you want.

	ofstream f( "output.fil" );
	ostream sout;  // for Standard OUT

	//  put to the screen
	sout = cout;
	sout << "Hi there";

	//  to a file
	sout = f;
	sout << "Into the file";

Hope this helps.

Tony Hodgson
ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu