From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: gcc and capital letters Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:06:09 -0700 Organization: Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 42 Message-ID: <32717211.306E@cs.com> References: <54r7ed$4u2 AT news-central DOT tiac DOT net> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp211.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Allen lyons To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Allen lyons wrote: > > Does anyone know why this happens > when I type this at the dos prompt? > ---------------------------------------------------------- > C:\djgpp\output>gcc -o xani.exe XANI.CPP > C:\djgpp\output>gcc -o xani.exe xani.cpp > C:\djgpp\output>gcc -o xani.exe XANI.c DJGPP uses the same POSIX file naming conventions as GNU: .c C program .C C++ program .cc C++ program .cpp C++ program .s assembly program .S assembly program that must be preprocessed .o object file .h header file .y bison program Non-DJGPP, but still relevant: .z gzip archive .Z compress archive (totally different format) As you can see, case is significant in several ways here. Even though DOS is case-insensitive, DJGPP is not, and you simply have to get used to it. :) This also applies to parameters passed to programs; i.e., gcc -o ... is MUCH different from gcc -O ... -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | Plan: To find ANYONE willing to | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | play Descent 2 on DWANGO! | Tagline: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------