G'Day Steven,
 
-=> Quoting Steven Pasztor to David Nugent <=-

 SP> How do I do that in C?  These darn BC++ books are no help, and we
 SP> don't do  it in uni till sometime next year...  And even then it'll 
 SP> probably be mid-semester by the time we get around to 
 SP> anything that complicated...  :-)
Bit rusty on this, but here goes ...

class baseclass
{
 private :
         // available to base only and friends
 protected: 
         // available to base,derived and friends
 public  : 
         // available to every dog and its flea.
                    
 };
 
class derived : public baseclass
{
};

If you don't specify protected or public in a class, it's members are 
assumed private, so your derived class won't have any access to them.  
Same way if you don't define the baseclass as public in the declaration of 
the derived class (eg class derived : baseclass) it will AFAIK be useless 
code, because baseclass will again be assumed private.

so now in main()..
baseclass base;
derived derv;

derv can now have access to members and data that are NOT private in base.
     

  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).
       
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