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From: adamsf@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: best extension for C++ files
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Date: 12 Sep 90 15:57:01 GMT
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In article <67782@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@sundance.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) writes:
>I don't see a problem with retaining .h for C++ header files ...

I do.  I set parameters in my text editor differently for C and C++ files --
in particular, // is a comment token in C++ files but not in C files.  So I
want a different file type for C and C++ header files.