Re: "a.out"

["brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca>]

>I'm not certain where the "a" from a.out came from; the .out is somewhat  
>obvious, of course. Anyway, it's the default output name for the linker  
>(ld).

It is my understanding that it originally came from linking the output
of assembled "*.a" files.

                                        Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@bnr.ca )

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