Mon 2003-06-16 04:06, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615) wrote to Wes Garland:

 RJT> I have a book on c programming around here someplace that actually
 RJT> talks about dealing with c under the unix environment,  and that's
 RJT> where I'd heard of a.out in the first place.  Dunno where that book
 RJT> is,  offhand,  though.

Possibly "A Book On C" by Kelley/Pohl...

 RJT> I was thinking that the ELF binary thing sorta obsoleted that,  but
 RJT> I guess I still have a lot to learn about doing things on that
 RJT> platform.

FreeBSD moved from "a.out" format to ELF format in version 3.0,
but gcc still outputs files named a.out (unless you use the -o option)
presumably not to break old Makefiles/build systems, etc.

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