>         Removing the "inline" from the declaration of hex (and dec and oct)[1]
> makes it work.  Probably make it a little slower but at least it will compile.
> (As for why it helps...??, but it does)

Won't this fail if you include iostream.h in multiple source files and
link them together?

I hope the real fix makes it before 1.3 gets released.  I use NetBSD
on my Mac mostly because it's a free UNIX development environment.
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   Johnny C. Lam
   Department of Statistics                 lamj@stat.cmu.edu
   Carnegie Mellon University               http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/

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