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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: File name conventions for Ada units
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Date: 4 Oct 90 01:55:54 GMT
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In article <2152@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
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>I can only agree. I don't if it has anything to with the O/S, but
>it seems like every Unix compiler I have met, not only Ada compilers,
>has some suffix you must use - and provide each time. Coming from
>the VMS world I find this strange. The normal file type for Ada
>files is .ADA, and if you use it you have to tell that to the
>compiler, but if you prefer .FOR you can do so.

Meridian AdaVantage for Unix will, I think, accept any filetype
(but of course it must be supplied explicitly). I have not tried to
break it, but it accepts ahny filetype I'd ever use for an Ada file...
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