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Subject: Re: Challenge for C++ programmers:
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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 08:13:21 -0600
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 990418140925 DOT 22615c-100000 AT is...
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> I don't know much about iostreams, but all you need to do to get this
> effect is to switch stdin to binary mode.  ANSI C has `freopen' (since
> a call to `setmode' is out, because it's non-standard).  If C++ has
> something similar, you won't need more than 10 lines for this one ;-).

Actually, Stroustrup shows a two-liner. I can't get it to compile, but I
only speak enough C++ to deal with MSVC++ .