File extensions - final posting

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Wed Dec 31 15:12:23 AEST 1986


Yet another convention, seen in some obscure places in the Unix sources:
a file named, e.g., "foo..c" is a header file written in C.  That is, to
distinguish a header file from a normal source file, use a double dot.
Could be useful in a multilingual environment.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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