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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP renames source when creating exe
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 13:38:30 -0700
Organization: Alcyone Systems
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bill oliveri wrote:

> gnn chncase.c

gnn?

> Creates:
> 
> A.exe

This is standard behavior.  Under Unix, when you don't specify what
executable name you want, it writes a.out.  Since files must end with COM
or EXE to be executable under DOS, DJGPP writes a.exe.

Use the -o command line argument if you want to name the resulting
executable.

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