I am writing a collection of objects for sending data to a dumb
terminal.  I already have the two key classes :
streambuf -> tstreambuf
ostream -> tstream

I need to change the existing manipulators (I am also adding some custom
ones, but that is not a problem), but since the existing ostream
operators return ostream (of course) my manipulators will not be called.

qvtstream& endl(qvtstream& stream)
{
 stream.put((char)13);
 stream.gotox(0);
 stream.flush();
 return stream;
}

Tout << "My data" << endl;

The standard endl will be called.

I suspect I am going to have to choose custom names, but this isn't OOP.

The real problem seems to be with the design of the manipulators.  They
should have been written as :

ostream& endl(ostream& os)
{
 os.endl();
}

This would provide for a method that could be over ridden.

Any suggestions ?

Jim Rush
jimrush@indirect.com