HB> My understanding was that "friend class ..." made ALL members
 HB> irregardless of protection "accessible" to the friend class. I've had
 HB> this problem before, and the only solution was to make the necessary
 HB> members public; but I don't really  want them public.
 HB> friend functions work perfectly, but trying to make a whole class a
 HB> friend  doesn't. :(
 HB> Any solutions? (besides deriving the *Str classes from LapTimer, I've 
 HB> considered it but it adds some additional headaches I'd rather not
 HB> deal with  at present)
 The code you provided compiles just fine on VC++ (changing the 
 Timer_t class designation to something that's defined).  And yes,
 your friend classes ought to be able to access private and 
 protected members of the class for which it is a friend.
 It seems like you're up the creek sans the proverbial paddle...
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