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From: luc@spcc386.UUCP (Luc Rooijakkers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AWK file extension =? .awk , .w , .k , or .what?
Summary: Surely NOT .a
Keywords: awk, file extensions
Message-ID: <223@spcc386.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 89 14:32:41 GMT
References: <2425@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Reply-To: luc@spcc386.UUCP (Luc Rooijakkers)
Organization: SPC Company, Heeswijk-Dinther, the Netherlands
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In article <2425@lll-lcc.UUCP> mike@lll-lcc.UUCP (mike hummell) writes:
>We're using awk (i.e. nawk) a lot lately, and wonder what the world uses
>for a file extension on awk source files.  ".a" is used for assemble code,
>so we suppose people use ".awk", although a one-letter extension would be
>nice.  Is there any standard?

I don't know of any *standard* extension, but you could use .awk if you
like (I think most people would, look at .sh .ksh ...). But as far as I
know, .a is for *archives*, made by ar(1) (e.g. /lib/libc.a), not for
assembly source: that is .s. Although there seem to be systems using
.asm or .a68 or .a86 ...

Greetings
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Luc Rooijakkers       luc@spcc386.UUCP  -or-  uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!spcc386!luc