From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxn!res
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Temporary file names
Article-I.D.: ihuxn.219
Posted: Tue Feb 15 09:20:34 1983
Received: Thu Feb 17 07:12:04 1983
Reply-To: res@ihuxn.UUCP (Rich Strebendt)
References: turtleva.155 hplabsb.1359

For a long time I have used varients of the following names
for temporary files:
     TRASH   JUNK    GARBAGE 
as well as the old standbys
     TEMP    TEMPY   TEMPxxxx
The former set of names implies that I do not need to examine the
contents of the file before removing it, and the latter reflect the
fact that I seldom feel creative at a time that I need a file name
quickly.