From: csrabak@dce03.ipt.br (Cesar Scarpini Rabak) Subject: Re: Default linker output filename 1 Nov 1996 08:47:21 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19961101134000.1aa7a02a.cygnus.gnu-win32@dmeasc.rc.ipt.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: csrabak@dmeasc.rc.ipt.br X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Original-To: "Weiqi Gao" , "Geoffrey Noer" , Original-Cc: "Geoffrey Noer" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 06:57 31/10/96 -0600, Weiqi Gao wrote: >Geoffrey Noer wrote: >> >> We are thinking about changing the default linker output filename from >> a.out to aout.exe. Can anyone think of any bad consequences that might >> result? > >Why not go all the way towards DOS behavior and create FOO.EXE when you do >"gcc foo.c"? > 'cause the cygnus project is to bring U**x world functionality to Win32 and not DOS! >-- >Weiqi Gao >weiqigao@crl.com >- >For help on using this list, send a message to >"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cesar Scarpini Rabak E-mail: csrabak@ipt.br DME/ASC Phone: 55-11-268-35221Ext.350 IPT - Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnologicas Fax: 55-11-268-5996 Av. Prof. Almeida Prado, 532. Sao Paulo - SP 05508-901 BRAZIL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".