File extensions - final posting

[Michael Meissner]

In article <7462 at utzoo.UUCP> henry at utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
> 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.

Or if you have C++ on your system, foo..c is the output of the C++ front
end that is then given to the regular C compiler to compile.
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	Michael Meissner, Data General
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