printf itself

[mickey]

What do you need it for anyway?

here, http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/self_c++.txt
as Michiel said, there is what I need. But as you can see there is the use of cout.form, and my compiler seems don't know it. I could use the printf but I'm looking for a pure c++ function where I can use %c %s characters....