From: bje@cygnus.com (Ben Elliston) Subject: Re: gcc produces foo.exe, not foo 25 Sep 1998 03:37:52 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mumit Khan Cc: Arne Glenstrup , gnu-win32@cygnus.com > As for the rationale for adding the automatic .exe, I'm somewhat in > favor of, if not thrilled by, such "native compliance"; for mingw32, it > makes perfect sense (must have .exe to jive with native system and also > be executable by native shell); for cygwin32, bash can run programs > with or without .exe, but have trouble when running with native shell. Since MS seem to be trying to hide file extensions in their user interfaces these days, I wonder how long it will be before they drop the filename extensions on executables all-together and start using some attributes in the file system? Ben - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".