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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Tim Oneil <toneil@visigenic.com>
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Subject: Re: What's Gnu ?
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Tim Oneil wrote:

> At 03:30 AM 2/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >gcc is a c compiler
> >g++ is a c++ compiler
> 
> Actually, I seem to recall in the readme and etc that g++ and gcc
> are just two different names for the same compiler. One way the
> system knows the difference between c and c++ source is that
> developers should name thier c++ source files *.C (as opposed to
> *.c). And thats just ONE way.

I thought it was *.cc for C++ source?
 
> -Tim
> 
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."