hex, dec, oct...

I've had to resort to setf calls on my cerr stream, because the friendly functions one can embed in the stream all print as numbers! Yes, actual digits print and no modification is made to the integer base output. I also noticed that ios_base::hex is in error, but ios::hex isn't. That fact might also be symptomatic?

I've forgotten if I need something beside header "<fstream>" and "namespace std" to make the shorthands work. Hell, when I stopped working in C++, there wasn't even the concept of namespaces. I'm having to attack these little difficulties with a vengeance. Need to get back up to speed.

Does anyone have any idea what header file needs to be included or namespace imported? I'm using g++ as always.

Qvacks.