Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: File extensions - final posting Message-ID: <7462@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 00:12:23 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.7462 Posted: Wed Dec 31 00:12:23 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 00:12:23 EST References: <111@vianet.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 7 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry