Oct. 12, 2012
2:09 p.m.
<tab> and file name were both copied from an existing file within the distribution.
I'm not sure why those files need
# <pre>
at the beginning, or why they have .tab as a suffix, as I don't think that's a commonly-known file suffix.
I don't know either, though I suspect the .tab suffix is to distinguish the table, perhaps in a nominally 8.3 backwards-compatible format (for embedded, etc.), from the main zone listings. When in Rome! - Walter