puder (02/12/83)
how about: #anything which is removed automagically after three days on most systems.
soreff (02/12/83)
I use qwe and qwert a good deal. -Jeffrey Soreff (hplabsb!soreff)
guy (02/14/83)
CORRECTION: how about: #anything which is removed automagically after three days on most *4.xBSD* systems and other systems where people have decided to put in something in /usr/lib/crontab where anything called '#anything' is removed automagically after three days. In our case, we remove *everything* that isn't a directory in /tmp and /usr/tmp after three days (to quote Ben Franklin, "Fish and visitors stink after three days"), and remove anything that looks like it was made by mktemp after one day. Guy Harris RLG Corporation (decvax!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy)
death (02/14/83)
i eschew the use of "foo" "bar" and other dill-beak geek dull unimaginative temporary filenames! i find it much better to use names like: ingracl-bbp.goo or dog or ignatz ==dd
res (02/15/83)
For a long time I have used varients of the following names
for temporary files:
TRASH JUNK GARBAGE
as well as the old standbys
TEMP TEMPY TEMPxxxx
The former set of names implies that I do not need to examine the
contents of the file before removing it, and the latter reflect the
fact that I seldom feel creative at a time that I need a file name
quickly.iy47ab (02/19/83)
Is it true that if you begin a file name with the character # that it will automatically disappear after 3 days or so? I tried it, but I don't feel like waiting to find out....anyone know? Arwen
jcz (02/20/83)
References: hplabsb.1359 My favorite is q.q qq.q q.qq w.w ad inf. t and t.[cfp] are usually quicky test programs. I will break my tempoary filename habits for files that are not quite so temporary, i.e. z.z is usually something that I need to look at when I get back to it. q.q and its kin are deleted by logging out. --jcz
ignatz (03/04/83)
ignatz???? Arrggghhh!!!! Dave Ihnat ihuxx!ignatz