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From: sking@nowhere.uucp (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Changing cout mode to ios::binary in Borland C++
Message-ID: <1991May07.170557.7250@nowhere.uucp>
Date: 7 May 91 17:05:57 GMT
References: <91123.104535UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> <91126.163800UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: American Anarchist Union
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In article <91126.163800UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:
>For those of you who might be interested, it looks like this might be
>"impossible."  I got several suggestions for the obvious workarounds, but
>I need the real solution in this case.  Oh well.  One response was
>especially interesting, and seemed like it might be of general enough
>interest that I've decided to post it here.  I've edited it to
>preserve the authors anonymity.  If he wanted it posted under his
>name, I guess he'd have done so.
>
>So, an anonymous author says....
>

   [ anon message why it might not be good to do this ]

   I dont know about borland, but microsoft c provides a "setmode" function
 in their C lib to do this, and it works on stdout. ie.:


#include <iostream.h>

extern "C" int setmode ( int, int ) ;
#define  O_BINARY 0x8000 

main ( )
{
   cout << "foo\n" << flush ;
   setmode ( 1, O_BINARY ) ;
   cout << "foo bar\n" << flush ;
}


   I would be very surprised if borland didnt provide something with the same
 functionality...


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