From: taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr Subject: Unfortunate "feature" of coff2exe To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 95 17:46:19 METDST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] By error, I types: coff2exe -c /gcc/bin/go32.exe my_prog Since "-c" is an unknown option, it said: can't find file -c which is OK, but the unfortunate is that it did not stop when finding that error, but it DAMAGED /gcc/bin/go32.exe, leading to very stange abnormal terminations. ===> suggestion: that coff2exe.exe checks first the validity of the command line, then and only then, begin to override the argument No. 2... D. Taupin (no more on the list)