From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with fstreams...
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 12:59:39 -0700
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Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> I'm not that familiar with the class structures, I'm just reporting
> what I see when browsing the header file.  You should probably check
> out a book or tutorial that teaches about the class structure in
> fstreams (sorry, I can't recommend one because I haven't read one yet
> myself).

ios is a virtual base class of the iostream family.  This means that all
iostream classes (istream, ostream, istrstream, streambuf, etc.) have
exactly one ios parent class.

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