-> In case of input and output, it surely is an appalling idea to build
-> a class hierarchy to do input/output operations, and the iostream
-> syntax with the > operators surely looks nice, but for some
-> applications, especially those that make heavy I/O like cryptography
-> does, the design of the iostream classes is not suited well. So
-> simply don't use them if you find out that they are too slow or do
-> not provide the features that you would need.

Yeah. I noticed, but in my program, I am having to use
istream::get(unsigned char *, int, char)
for my file input. I am extracting characters until a
NULL character or the number of characters is reached.
Kind of a bummer, but I can't figure out how to make
my own without the iostream classes.
Any help you can give me?

-=Dave=-

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