>In order to facilitate mine and pending Benjamin commits, the posted >version is already in. But I promise to do the change in the next >few days. Please don't. >Just to be sure: you prefer, for instance: > > __basic_file<char>::_M_xsgetn(char* __s, streamsize __n) > >right? This isn't part of the standard interface: it doesn't have to be uglified. -benjamin