From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!ncsu!jcz Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Temporary file names Article-I.D.: ncsu.1101 Posted: Sun Feb 20 13:33:27 1983 Received: Thu Feb 24 03:21:13 1983 References: hplabsb.1359 My favorite is q.q qq.q q.qq w.w ad inf. t and t.[cfp] are usually quicky test programs. I will break my tempoary filename habits for files that are not quite so temporary, i.e. z.z is usually something that I need to look at when I get back to it. q.q and its kin are deleted by logging out. --jcz