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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:44:02 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Three questions
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:33:26PM +0100, Mikael ?sberg wrote:
>Hello, I have three questions that aren't related.
>First: Is there a cygwin package that will let me compare two binary files 
>to see if they are equal?

diff

>Second: Is there a way to prevent gcc from adding .exe extension when 
>building programs? I recall hearing something that win98 needs the .exe, 
>but I can launch programs from within Cygwin under Windows XP Pro just fine 
>without the extension so if I could get GCC not to add this extension it'd 
>be great. The reason I want this is that I have to rewrite my Makefiles 
>when moving projects to-and-from cygwin-fedora.

gcc -o foo. foo.c

>Third: I tried removing an the .exe-extension from a file by issuing:
>$ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb

$ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.

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