From:	felawldl AT tiac DOT com (Allen lyons)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	gcc and capital letters
Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 1996 20:20:21 GMT
Organization:	The Internet Access Company, Inc.
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Does anyone know why this happens
when I type this at the dos prompt?
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C:\djgpp\output>gcc -o xani.exe XANI.CPP

XANI.CPP: file not recognized: File format not recognized

but then when I try this:

C:\djgpp\output>gcc -o xani.exe xani.cpp

c:\\djgpp\\output\\xani.cpp: In function `int main(...)':
c:\\djgpp\\output\\xani.cpp:23: warning: excess elements in aggregate
initialize
.....ect

It compiles correctly.  I realize that unix file names are case
sensitive, but then when I try:

C:\djgpp\output>gcc -o xani.exe XANI.c

it works. Why are C extentions not case sensitive, but cpp extentions
are? Why, when it parses the command line, does it not understand what
a CPP file is but understands a C file? It would have to compare C to
both c and C, or just convert the command line to upper or lower case
and then just compare it with the same case? 

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