Assigning cout to a variable name

Question

In ANSI C++, how can I assign the cout stream to a variable name? What I want to do is, if the user has specified an output file name, I send output there, otherwise, send i

Answer 1

You can find a very detailed explanation of how to do this here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/msg/1d941c0f26ea0d81?pli=1

Hopefully someone will write this up more clearly for stack overflow to take the points...