[image] DOT (graph description language) DOT is a graph description language. DOT graphs are typically files with the filename extension gv or dot. The extension gv is preferred, to avoid confusion with the extension dot used by versions of Microsoft Word before 2007. Various programs can…

What is the file extension for dot file?

steveroush April 12, 2020, 4:10am 2

It used to be .dot, but Microsoft Word claimed .dot, whoops. The Graphviz programs don’t care.

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