DN>
  >  RS> If it is so easy...there is no excuse for NOT
  >  RS> including a multi-threaded cout and cin for those of
  >  RS> use who are new to C++.
  >
  > It is fairly clear that IBM have no major plans to support or encourage
  > development of text mode apps. 'cout' and 'cin' are of
  > course text mode only. Their emphasis is clearly GUI, ...
DN>

  This is so misguided.  iostreams may be used for text-mode
  applications, but I happen to have PM applications here before me at
  this very moment that use iostreams for file I/O.

  Multithreadable iostream classes (something that *should* be addressed
  by the IBM compiler people) are very useful.  There is no way that I'd
  go back to  for thread-safe file I/O.

  BTW, for the benefit of any who may be interested, CSet++ may not have
  multithreaded stream classes, but my compiler of choice, Metaware High
  C++ 3.2a for OS/2, does.  Both class ios and class streambuf are
  derived from class _mt_stream.

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