From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: PEST or BUG
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:14:29 -0800
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Ian Chapman wrote:

>      this is a pest and I can live with it.  My preference is to have
> cout in dec at every call and only stream through hex when explicitly
> called.  As some one who is involved in applications close to the
> hardware I need hex.  I must wonder what this will do to many of the
> libs and class libs.

Easy.  Change this:

    cout << "Ia in hex is ..." << hex << Ia << endl;

to this:

    cout << "Ia in hex is ..." << hex << Ia << dec << endl;

That is, merely set the base output back to decimal after you've printed
your (rare) hex value.

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