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<H1>Chapter 27: The Architecture of Iostreams</H1>
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<UL><LI><A HREF="27-1.html">27.1 The Standard Iostreams</A></LI></UL>
<UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-1.html#2711">27.1.1 Type Safety</A></LI></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-1.html#2712">27.1.2 Extensibility to New Types</A></LI></UL></UL>
<UL><LI><A HREF="27-2.html">27.2 How the Standard Iostreams Work</A></LI></UL>
<UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-2.html#2721">27.2.1 The Iostream Layers</A></LI></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-2.html#2721-1">27.2.1.1 The Formatting Layer</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-2.html#2721-2">27.2.1.2 The Transport Layer</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-2.html#2721-3">27.2.1.3 Locales</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-2.html#2722">27.2.2 File and In-Memory I/O</A></LI></UL></UL>
<UL><LI><A HREF="27-3.html">27.3 How the Standard Iostreams Help Solve Problems</A></LI></UL>
<UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html">27.4 The Internal Structure of the Iostreams Layers</A></LI></UL>
<UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2741">27.4.1 The Internal Structure of the Formatting Layer</A></LI></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2741-1">27.4.1.1 Iostreams Base Class ios_base</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2741-2">27.4.1.2 The Iostreams Character Type-Dependent Base Class</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2741-3">27.4.1.3 Character Traits</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2741-4">27.4.1.4 The Input and Output Streams</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2741-5">27.4.1.5 The File Streams</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2741-6">27.4.1.6 The String Streams</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2742">27.4.2 The Transport Layer's Internal Structure</A></LI></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2742-1">27.4.2.1 The Stream Buffer</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2742-2">27.4.2.2 The File Buffer</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2742-3">27.4.2.3 The String Stream Buffer</A></LI></UL></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2743">27.4.3 Collaboration of Streams and Stream Buffers</A></LI></UL></UL>
<UL><UL><LI><A HREF="27-4.html#2744">27.4.4 Collaboration of Locales and Iostreams</A></LI></UL></UL>

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