Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3ACCC45F.BFA88FC0@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:15:43 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jmerz42 AT earthlink DOT net CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: OT pondering (WAS: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names) References: <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20010405144831 DOT 021f9008 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> <3ACCC15F DOT 20606 AT earthlink DOT net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jonathon Merz wrote: > > I agree with that, having seen this before, but I am curious... It seems that > such functionality did not get there by accident (I cannot think of a way to > ignore characters in a filename without some _extra_ coding), so it must have > been done for some purpose. Yet I cannot for the life of me imagine what > benefit this produces, or what fault it would circumvent. Anyone have ideas > as to this? > Try this on for size gcc -o helloworld. helloworld.c Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple