From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: gcc and capital letters
Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:06:09 -0700
Organization:	Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To:	Allen lyons <felawldl AT tiac DOT com>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Allen lyons wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know why this happens
> when I type this at the dos prompt?
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> C:\djgpp\output>gcc -o xani.exe XANI.CPP
> C:\djgpp\output>gcc -o xani.exe xani.cpp
> C:\djgpp\output>gcc -o xani.exe XANI.c

DJGPP uses the same POSIX file naming conventions as GNU:

.c	C program

.C	C++ program
.cc	C++ program
.cpp	C++ program

.s	assembly program
.S	assembly program that must be preprocessed

.o	object file

.h	header file

.y	bison program

Non-DJGPP, but still relevant:

.z	gzip archive
.Z	compress archive (totally different format)

As you can see, case is significant in several ways here.  Even though
DOS is case-insensitive, DJGPP is not, and you simply have to get used
to it.  :)  This also applies to parameters passed to programs; i.e.,
gcc -o ... is MUCH different from gcc -O ...

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