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Originally Posted by robatino

I'm guessing that in the filesystem used in Windows, there's no execute flag, so whether a file is executable is determined by its suffix, so a.out had to be renamed.

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I believe that you can actually tell Windows that other file extensions are executable - and of course there's absolutely no reason why a Linux executable can't be called a.exe - it's just not the normal convention, but it's perfectly valid.

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Mats