C++ Question on using endl or newline

I've seen a number of documents and code that prefers to use the newline character ("\n" or '\n') rather than std::endl In the general case, the issue is that endl forces a buffer flush where '\n' does not, and therefore using the newline is more efficient. However, using endl is more portable. Either way works fine on Linux. Comments... -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9