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

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In article <7qjfu4FhiqU4 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>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

       -x language
           Specify explicitly the language for the following input files (rather than letting the compiler choose a default
           based on the file name suffix).  This option applies to all following input files until the next -x option.  Possible
           values for language are:

                   c  c-header  c-cpp-output
                   c++  c++-header  c++-cpp-output
                   objective-c  objective-c-header  objective-c-cpp-output
                   objective-c++ objective-c++-header objective-c++-cpp-output
                   assembler  assembler-with-cpp
                   ada
                   f77  f77-cpp-input f95  f95-cpp-input
                   java


>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.

..and you faulted $ RUN because it defaults to .EXE yet didn't understand
that it doesn't matter the extension.

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