Message-Id: <199706241043.KAA12868@mx2.rmplc.co.uk>
From: "Liam" <marl AT rmplc DOT co DOT uk>
To: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com>,
        "John Syers" <john DOT syers AT compaq DOT com>
Cc: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: trouble compiling c++
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:01:41 +0100
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Art S. Kagel <kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com> wrote:
> You do not show the comand line that you used.  I suspect that you named 
> your 'hello' program hello.c even though it contains C++ code and the 'C'

> parser does not know what to do with it. You probably should have called 
> the file hello.cc.
Can't it tell the difference between C and C++ code
with out relying on the extension of a file?