Mike Burns wrote:
It's not a "source file" unless it ends with a newline. Somewhere along the way "source file" -> "text file."
"Source file" in 1980's Unix docs in context was understood to mean "the file which is the source of the text being counted", not "a file of source code for a compiler or interpreter".
We would probably call it today a "target file". -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
