From: bje AT cygnus DOT com (Ben Elliston)
Subject: Re: gcc produces foo.exe, not foo
25 Sep 1998 03:37:52 -0700
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To: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
Cc: Arne Glenstrup <panic AT diku DOT dk>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> As for the rationale for adding the automatic .exe, I'm somewhat in
> favor of, if not thrilled by, such "native compliance"; for mingw32, it
> makes perfect sense (must have .exe to jive with native system and also
> be executable by native shell); for cygwin32, bash can run programs
> with or without .exe, but have trouble when running with native shell.

Since MS seem to be trying to hide file extensions in their user
interfaces these days, I wonder how long it will be before they drop
the filename extensions on executables all-together and start using some
attributes in the file system?

Ben

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