Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 08:16:20 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: dsn AT chem DOT duke DOT edu
Subject: Re: read()?{{
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> uncommented a nearby use of cerr.  Note that in my code cerr was the only 
> streams operator I used; for the rest I was using FILE * variables, 
> calling setmode(), and using fwrite and fread.  Any clues?

I'd guess that this is something specific to C++ library.  I've never
experienced anything like this in C programs.