Subject: Re: Default linker output filename
From: [email-masked] (Cesar Scarpini Rabak)

1 Nov 1996 08:47:21 -0800
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At 06:57 31/10/96 -0600, Weiqi Gao wrote:
>Geoffrey Noer <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> 
>> We are thinking about changing the default linker output filename from
>> a.out to aout.exe.  Can anyone think of any bad consequences that might
>> result?
>
>Why not go all the way towards DOS behavior and create FOO.EXE when you do
>"gcc foo.c"?
>

'cause the cygnus project is to bring U**x world functionality to Win32 and
not DOS!

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