There was a prediction in a magazine years ago, that the world would discover the internet is routed through a 300 baud modem in Kansas. (or some other midwest place).;P Top 10 Geek Resulutions: 5. To decipher what that big room is, which has the blue ceiling and poor climate control.

Indeed Andrew, I think the problem arised from having VC++ 6 projects ported to VS .NET . The "output files" section as you pointed out, was ".\Debug/" . By clicking the combobox and selecting "", the correct path was setup, i.e. "$(IntDir)/" and everything worked A OK. Thanks again Andrew, /Rob

i use VS pro and i never see this either :~ X| sorry :suss: TOXCCT >>> GEII power [VisualCalc]

Thanks Aamir, I'm not sure what you mean by the "plain include"? I do use the include: #include for the std::ifstream and std::ofstream STL classes. I checked the VC7 STL implementation and a lot of stream operators are available for the std::ofstream (through std::ostream). All _except_ char* (!!). For example, when the ofstream was passed a char* it used the operator << (void * ptr), so it was no wonder that the pointer value got into the text file instead of the string content. I'm not convinced that this is according to the standard, as STLPort is much more standard compliant and with STLPort it works just as intended. I guess the VC6 STL bugs just have been replaced by VC7 STL bugs... ;-) /Rob