File Name Extensions
Acronym | Meaning |
---|---|
.a | archive |
.c | C |
.cpp | C++ ("C plus plus") |
.cxx | C++ (the plus signs are rotated 45 °; found on file systems that don't allow plus signs in file names) |
.C | C++ (on systems where CC is the C++ compiler) |
.gz | GNU zip |
.h | header |
.i | intermediate (?) |
.l | lex |
.o | object code |
.ps | Postscript |
.sa | stub archive |
.so | shared object |
.tgz | tar gz |
,v | version |
.y | yacc |
.Z | ? (not Ziv because compress uses Huffmann encoding) |