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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:02:36 +0200
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On 9/14/2011 5:02 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

>
> Why do we need to add an arbitrary new extension here?  Why isn't octave
> using "dll"?  "oct" is certainly not a standard extension for a shared
> library.
>
> cgf

octave is using .oct on all platforms including linux

upstream choice, no specific difference for cygwin

Regards
Marco

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