From: utzoo!decvax!goutal Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: turtleva.155: Temporary file names Article-I.D.: decvax.420 Posted: Sun Feb 13 01:04:44 1983 Received: Tue Feb 15 04:41:35 1983 References: sultan.146 foo.*, bar.*, gag.*, *.foo, *.bar, *.gag (That "." business is called an "extension" by most DEC operating systems, and "file type" (erroneously) by VMS, for all you Unix only types.)