Q. What is the the status of iostreams in the ANSI C++ standards work
   and where I can get further documentation?

I already have the "C++ IOStreams Handbook" by Steve Teal (good
book) but I need to know more about what features are likely to
change etc.  I really don't want to write a lot of code to find that
it depends on non-standard iostream/ios/streambuf features.

Thanks!
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msample@cs.ubc.ca (Mike Sample @ Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada) writes

 > Q. What is the the status of iostreams in the ANSI C++ standards work
 > and where I can get further documentation?

The specification of iostreams is part of the working document and is being
refined and transmuted into standardese. Every ANSI/ISO member has a copy.

 > I already have the "C++ IOStreams Handbook" by Steve Teal (good
 > book) but I need to know more about what features are likely to
 > change etc.  I really don't want to write a lot of code to find that
 > it depends on non-standard iostream/ios/streambuf features.

Stick to the subset described in chapter 10 of ``The C++ Programming Language
(2nd edition)'' and you should be safe.