| Subject | English | German |
| tech. | file header | Dateikopf |
| comp. | file header | Dateivorsatz |
| comp. | file header label | Dateianfangskennsatz |
| comp., MS | header file | Headerdatei (A file that is identified to be included at the beginning of a program in a language such as C and that contains the definitions of data types and declarations of variables used by the functions in the program) |