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Jonathon Merz wrote:
> 
> I agree with that, having seen this before, but I am curious... It seems that
> such functionality did not get there by accident (I cannot think of a way to
> ignore characters in a filename without some _extra_ coding), so it must have
> been done for some purpose.  Yet I cannot for the life of me imagine what
> benefit this produces, or what fault it would circumvent.  Anyone have ideas
> as to this?
> 

Try this on for size
  gcc -o helloworld. helloworld.c

Earnie.

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