File extensions - final posting

[Karl Heuer]

In article <783 at dg_rtp.UUCP> meissner at dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
|In article <7462 at utzoo.UUCP> henry at 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.
|
|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.

Actually, foo.i is the "correct" name, but foo..c is often used because some
versions of cc don't understand the .i suffix (though they will produce it).

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint