Verne said:
Thanks for the answers and though not just what I was looking for it
may give me an idea. I thought this was a C++ group here so must be
blind or something but the groups heading is Comp.lang.c++. Perhaps
my new eyes decieve me or the likes.
If you are using dos still then you really are behind the
times and with XP it's useless.
No, but the topic of this newsgroup is the C++ language itself, as
defined by the ISO C++ standard. For system-specific libraries,
compilers etc, one should refer to the appropriate system-specific
newsgroups.
Consider for example that I am programming in .NET, someone else with
the QT API under Linux using GCC, someone else using Intel compiler with
QT for Linux, someone else using Win32 API, with a GCC port in Windows,
someone else creating 3D games using OpenGL under Mac OS, and the list
never ends, all these with C++.
Questions on all the system-specific topics should be posted to the
system-specific newsgroups. The topic of this newsgroup is ISO C++.