Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 21:27:02 +0400 (MSD)
From: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net>
Message-Id: <199608131727.VAA07673@video.yars.free.net>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, lchandar AT mindspring DOT com
Subject: Re: RHIDE and DJGPP

> From: Joshua Cannon Butcher <lchandar AT mindspring DOT com>

> 7)	And for everyone in General, why do you have to stray away from
> industry standards?  Calling object files .O files instead of .OBJ,
> calling C++ files .CC instead of .CPP, and .a instead of .LIB for
> library.  HELLO!  Its not copyright infringement to use the same
> extensions, and it would make the transition for existing C and C++
> users to use.  This is quite frankly scaring me, and almost makes me
> want to pay the $500 for Borland C++ 5.0 so I can have the "standard" of
> the computer programming industry.

Why do you call those silly dos extensions "industry standard"?
GCC is primarily Unix compiler and it was ported to dos. All Unices
have .o, .cc, .a etc as convensional suffixes. I think they are older than
dos. (Probably .obj was used in other os'es, like CP/M, but I don't know)

Well, you can call your files as you want. See how:
	ar q mylib.lib files...
	gcc myprog.cpp mylib.lib

You can even do 'ren ar.exe lib.exe'