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