From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 08:32:12 GMT
Subject: Re: symlink to g++ [was: Yet another subjectless message]
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp> wrote:-

> g++ only works if you have a program by that name. I believe "g++.exe"
> is a legal DOS file name ...

It ain't. `+' is a legal filename character in Unix but not in DOS. In DOS,
`+' is a wildcard of some sort. DOS filenames can only contain 0-9 A-Z
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