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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: cc ignores the -o flag when -c is present
Keywords: BUG # 345,322,567,429,231
Message-ID: <4197@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 20:47:59 GMT
References: <10114@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
Lines: 9


 >The  particular scheme that we have adopted requires that a line of the form
 >
 >	cc -c foo.c -o o/ibm/foo.o 
 >
 >deposit the file foo.o in the directory o/ibm,

Be aware that not all UNIX systems support this; IBM isn't unique here. 
V7 didn't support it, either....