DM> Nope.  The const_cast is _removing_ const (since there isn't a const
 DM> in the "brackets" ()).  The static_cast is doing nothing about
 DM> static - it's saying that we're not going to do a runtime check, but a
 DM> compile time check to change the volatile void* to volatile char*.
I've never used volatile on any direct screen I/O.  Perhaps that's
because under single-tasking DOS that's not a problem.  In what way
would I see problems under multi-tasking OS like WinNT or OS/2?
BTW, you got internet e-mail and/or fido node yet?
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