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From: ubiquity@cs.utexas.edu (Richard Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Are .FILE extentions standard in MSDOS?
Summary: Extension Conventions
Message-ID: <2873@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 16 Jun 88 05:07:59 GMT
References: <1159@iitmax.IIT.EDU>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <1159@iitmax.IIT.EDU>, demoedf@iitmax.IIT.EDU (ed federmeyer) writes:
> 
> Here is a somewhat strange phenomenon I've seen-  All the CP/M books
> I've ever seen seem to have a nice table of the file extentions listed
> somewhere... Does anyone have a list of these they might like to share 
> with the other users on the net?

I've seen such lists, but can't find one now.  Of course, there's no rule
that says files with .exe extensions *must* be executable, but conventions
are always useful.  Here's a starter list; perhaps someone would like
to add to it.

   EXE   Relocatable image
   COM   Non-relocatable image
   BAT   MS/DOS command script
   SYS   Device drivers and configuration files

   BAS   BASIC source
   FOR   FORTRAN source
   C     C source
   H     C include files
   PAS   Pascal source
   INC   Pascal include files
   CBL   COBOL source
   OBJ   Object files
   ARC   Archived files

The first five of these are used by the MS/DOS files that come "out of the
box"; the others are fairly standard in my observation.

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