On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, John Wildberger wrote:

I also tried a few other suggestins, given by by Peter Peres but also with negative success. It seems that the good old printf() is still the best to use. It just bugs me not being able to do it with cout.

info iostream, menu nodes: Streams->Ostream->Writing where we find the prototype of: ostream::form(const char *FORMAT, ...) also: Streams->Iostreams->Ios->Format Control and 'Manipulators', which contains some examples. Your code would be: cout << "Yada: 0x" << setw(2) << hex << buf[i] << nl; and f_unit8 could be: #define f_uint8 setw(2) << hex so you could: cout << "Yada: 0x" << f_uint8 << buf[i] << nl; Peter PS: You should take a moment (or a day) and index your system. This info and much more is on your machine. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml