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)

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