#include <sstream>

                if (key)
                    v.push_back(key);

                v.push_back(key);

    std::string s;

    std::ostringstream s;

                s += "\\{!more}";

                s << "\\{!more}";

                s += std::string( buff );

                s << buff;

            // Removing the stringstream code because its highly 
            // non-portable.  For starters, people and compilers 
            // are supposed to be using the <sstream> implementation
            // (with the ostringstream class) not the old <strstream>
            // version, but <sstream> is not as available as it should be.
            //
            // The strstream implementation isn't very standard
            // either:  some compilers require the "ends" marker,
            // others don't (and potentially fatal errors can 
            // happen if you don't have it correct for the system...
            // ie its hard to make portable).  It also isn't a very 
            // good implementation to begin with. 
            //
            // Everyone should have snprintf()... we supply a version
            // in libutil.cc to make sure of that! -- bwr
            //
            // std::ostrstream ss;
            // ss << "\\{" << *i << "}" << ends;
            // s += ss.str();

            s += "\\\\";

            s << "\\\\";

            s += *i;

            s << static_cast<char>(*i);

    }    

    }

    return (s);

    return (s.str());