[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <AyzF6Rqgzkoc at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <7qecbeF3tt7rbU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> Of course it does.  If I want to run an executable file under VMS
>> using RUN if the file ends in .EXE I don't have to include the
>> extension but if it is anything else, I do.  VMS uses extensions
>> just like other OSes.
> 
>    You ever try to convince a UNIX cc command that you have C source
>    in a .a file?  You can do that on VMS.  I don't but not because the
>    OS or its layered products force me.
 
cc -x c xxx.a

Worked just fine for me on FreeBSD 6.1 with GCC 3.4.4. Pprobably
wouldn't work on the old Ultrix cc but I don't have a system handy
to find out.

bill

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