Hello Darin,
07 Feb 98, Darin McBride of 1:250/102 wrote to Roger Scudder
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RS>> TM>         cout >> "Hi Cyber Con";
RS>> TM>     ofstream("file1.fil") << name;
RS>>  You have to open the file before you can write to it.
TM> No. The ofstream constructor does that.
 RS>  Oh, really?  I don't doubt it can be done, but is that the
 RS>  default or does that have to be implemented by you?
 DM> Default.
One little point however, opening a file stream like this writes to a file in 
textmode by default. One has to set ios::binary to write to a binary file. Or 
has this changed since my ancient TC++ 3.0 for Dos? ;-))
Greetings from sunny Amsterdam,
       Jan
email:bijster@worldonline.nl
http://home.worldonline.nl/~bijster
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