File extensions - final posting

[Bob Devine]

  Here is the amended list of commonly used file extensions.  It
is my original list modified by the suggestions many folks sent.

Bob Devine

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Conventions for UNIX file extensions:

    .a    library file made by 'ar'
    .awk  awk script
    .b    unused
    .bib  Bibliographic data file
    .C    compact'ed file
    .c    C source file
    .cas  CAST language scripts
    .clu  CLU file
    .cpio cpio file
    .csh  Cshell script
    .d    directories
    .dvi  device-independent text formatter output
    .e    EFL source file
    .el   GNU Emacs Elisp file
    .elc  compiled GNU Emacs Elisp file
    .f    Fortran source file
    .f77  Fortran 77 source file
    .g    unused
    .h    include file
    .i    output of "cc -P"
    .i    Berkely Pascal include file
    .icn  Icon source code
    .j    unused
    .k    unused
    .l    lex source file
    .l    lisp source file
    .log  log file
    .m    Modula source file
    .m2   Modula-2 source file
    .me   nroff/troff source using e macros
    .ml   Gosling/Unipress Emacs Mock Lisp file
    .mm   nroff/troff source using m macros
    .ms   nroff/troff source using s macros
    .n    nroff source
    .nro  nroff source
    .o    object file
    .out  executable ('as' output) file
    .out  nohup output file
    .out  profile output file
    .p    Pascal source file
    .p    Prolog source file
    .pi   PILOT language file
    .q    unused
    .r    RatFor source file
    .s    assembler file
    .scm  Scheme file
    .sh   Bourne shell script file
    .shar shell archive
    .t    text file
    .tar  archive created by tar
    .tex  TeX source
    .tro  troff source
    .txt  ascii file
    .u    unused
    .v    unused
    .x    unused
    .y    YACC file
    .z    pack'ed file
    .Z    compress'ed file

    ,v    RCS delta file

   ~.s    Prefix for SCCS archives

contributors:

Tony Hansen (pegasus!hansen)
Jeff Smith  (ritcv!jxs7451)
(samira!kahless)
Bob Leffler (ahxenix!bob)
tanner andrews (ki4pv!tanner)
Eric S. Raymond (snark!eric)
Rich Kulawiec (j.cc.purdue.edu!rsk)
(cblpe!jwd)
Chris Lent (cooper!chris)
John Carter (nesac2!jec)
Chet Ramey (cwruecmp!cwruacm)
Larry Cipriani (danews!lvc)
Mike Meyer (eris!mwm)
derek terveer (herman!det)
Fred Fish (mcdsun!fnf)