unix file system

[grogers at uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA]

Wayne you completely missed the point.  There should be some "standard"
way of attaching attributes to a file thus freeing the user from remembering
this information.  The poster of the base note used fortran as an example.
The file could have contained processed ditroff, unix plot commands, image data
or whatever.  
The current method of using commonly accepted suffixes to denote file
contents is probably good enough.  After all cc could refuse to compile
any file that doesn't end with .c, likewise for f77 and .f, and troff and .tr.

Greg Rogers
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science and Demos

grogers at uiucdcs