::> HB>    (ofstream &)*this << l.MarkCount << l.Last_Lap << l.Prev_Lap <<
::> HB>                                l.Total_LapTime << l.Avg_Lap << l.Bes
::> After I added
::> #include 
::> typedef int Timer_t;
::> struct timer_base
::> at the top and removed three "snip" lines, Borland C++  5.01  compiled
::> your code without issuing any error messages.
Must be a bug in 4.5 (and in BCOS2 2.0). Both give me headaches with this.
In any case, I said screw it, and re-arranged the code so that rather than
having the separate derived stream classes, I made the LapTimer class itself
derived from fstream. Didn't take much and all is peachy now (actually, much 
*better* !)
I guess I'm not supposed to have friends 
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