Hi Steve, > > troff chapter.tr >chapter.set > > grops chapter.set >chapter.ps > > > > Short, simple, not already widely used by another program, > > pronounceable, a clear derivation. > > Maybe I'm mis-reading the problem here, but Postscript output from > groff in my experience has always been a temporary file.
The issue is the output from troff which is later turned into PostScript. Or PDF, or whatever, depending on the device troff was given; default PostScript. The chapter.set above. > And under Unix one could reasonably argue that an un-suffixed file > outside of bin directories was by default a text file. I agree text files on Unix don't need a suffix. Some programs can act on the pattern to filenames, e.g. make(1). It can be told how to turn a .tr into a .set and a .set into a .ps. Even though all three are text files, it's useful to suffix them descriptively. -- Cheers, Ralph.
