This reminded me of Prime Computer's "cnt" files back in the mid 80s.
Whereby someone in marketing decided that would be a nice suffix for files created with contiguous space allocation.
The idea lasted until the first internal meeting of worldwide data management specialists. Whereupon we painfully explained what it would really mean...
It got promptly replaced by "con"-suffixed files. That's when I decided to leave the company...
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Whereby someone in marketing decided that would be a nice suffix for files created with contiguous space allocation.
The idea lasted until the first internal meeting of worldwide data management specialists. Whereupon we painfully explained what it would really mean...
It got promptly replaced by "con"-suffixed files. That's when I decided to leave the company...