I have no need to keep the .h. I am just working through some of my 
lessions from when I took a cpp class way back when. What I do not 
understand is why the instructor taught it in an outdated style. The 
class happened in fall 2002. I guess I will have to do some stfw to 
figure out what I need to do.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 09:27 am, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
> 
>>Howdy. I am using a debian unstable based on knoppix. To answer one person:
>>rob@fearlesslaptop:~$ locate iostream.h
>>/usr/include/c++/3.2/backward/iostream.h
>>rob@fearlesslaptop:~$ find /usr/include/ -name iostream.h
>>/usr/include/c++/3.2/backward/iostream.h
>>
>>To answer another I have been using both:
>>rob@fearlesslaptop:~$ gcc as1.h -o as1
>>
>>g++ as1.h -a as1
>>
>>Why would they change the header styles? And why would msft not change
>>their software with the time?
> 
> 
> It doesn't matter where the header files are.  gcc/g++ will automatically find 
> all of the header files it is supposed to find.
> 
> gcc will NOT automatically find any C++ header files (like iostream) but g++ 
> will.
> 
> The header style was changed to conform with the C++ standard.  I'm not 100% 
> of the reasoning behind the change, though.
> 
> You can access the system headers either with or without the .h in both g++ 
> and MSVC++.  g++ gets progressively more strict about C++ compliance as each 
> version is released, though, so it's harder to go the non-standard route.  As 
> somebody mentioned, if you *really* need to keep the .h (and I don't know why 
> you would unless you are also compiling the code on a very old compiler), you 
> can enable it with newer g++ with -Wno-deprecated
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