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.