Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!meissner From: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: File extensions - final posting Message-ID: <783@dg_rtp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 14:43:08 EST Article-I.D.: dg_rtp.783 Posted: Thu Jan 1 14:43:08 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 22:28:17 EST References: <111@vianet.UUCP> <7462@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) Distribution: world Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.) Lines: 12 In article <7462@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: > > Yet another convention, seen in some obscure places in the Unix sources: > a file named, e.g., "foo..c" is a header file written in C. That is, to > distinguish a header file from a normal source file, use a double dot. > Could be useful in a multilingual environment. Or if you have C++ on your system, foo..c is the output of the C++ front end that is then given to the regular C compiler to compile. -- Michael Meissner, Data General ...mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!meissner