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to: Darin McBride
from: andrew clarke
date: 2003-05-26 14:04:20
subject: Linux and GCC

Sat 2003-05-24 21:17, Darin McBride (1:250/102) wrote to Neil Heller:

 DM> No.  Unix executables generally do not have extentions.  Using EXE
 DM> or COM or BAT or other such nonsense was a Microsoft hack when they
 DM> removed the extra attributes that unix files get.

Actually I'm not sure you can blame Microsoft for that.  I get the feeling
this behaviour predates DOS (think CP/M). 

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