For all Debian users, you can find more documenation to the Standard Template Library in the stl-manual package. The description of the package : Package: stl-manual Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: doc Installed-Size: 3249 Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de> Version: 3.11-3 Suggests: web-browser Description: C++-STL documentation in HTML This is the documentation for the C++ Standard Template Library as found on SGIs Website.