| .AIF |
|
Audio
Interchange File, a sound format used by Macintosh and Silicon Graphics
applications. |
| .AOL |
|
America On-Line
related file. |
| .APP |
|
Executable
application file (DR-DOS - NeXTstep - Atari - EPOC). |
| .ASC |
|
Pretty Good Privacy
armored encrypted file. |
| .ASC |
|
Ascii
text for cross platform use. |
| .AU |
|
Sound file for
Sun/NeXT/DEC/UNIX |
| .AVI |
|
Microsoft
Audio Video Interleaved file for Windows movie. |
| .BIN |
|
Macintosh compressed
binary file. |
| .BMP |
|
Windows
or OS/2 bitmap image. |
| .BPS |
|
Microsoft Works
Document |
| .CPT |
|
Compressed
Macintosh file archive (Compact Pro), encrypted memo file (dBASE),
template (CA-Cricket Presents), bitmap graphics (Corel Photo-Paint). |
| .DAT |
|
ASCII or binary
data file (many applications). |
| .DOC |
|
Document
produced by FrameMaker, FrameBuilder, WordStar, WordPerfect, Microsoft
Word, DisplayWrite, et. al. |
| .DOS |
|
Win95 DOS related
file. |
| .ENC |
|
Encoded
file - UUENCODEd file (Lotus 1-2-3 - uuencode). |
| .EPI |
|
Encapsulated
PostScript (text and graphics) (Express Publisher). |
| .EPS |
|
Encapsulated
Postscript Vector graphics (Image produced by Adobe Illustrator) |
| .EXE |
|
Executable file
(Windows program) these can contain viruses. |
| .FAQ |
|
Frequently
Asked Questions text file. |
| .FM |
|
FileMaker Pro
Database. |
| .FP |
|
FileMaker
Pro data file. |
| .FP3 |
|
FileMaker Pro
3.0 document. For versions 4 and 5 just add the correct number. |
| .GIF |
|
Bitmap
image (Commonly used on Web Pages). |
| .HEX |
|
Macintosh BinHex
encoded file archive (ascii). |
| .HQX |
|
BinHex
(Macintosh compressed file). |
| .HTM |
|
HyperText Markup
Language document for the web (WWW). |
| .HTML |
|
HyperText
Markup Language document also for the web. (WWW). |
| .JAV |
|
Java language
source code file. |
| .JPE |
|
JPEG
Joint Photography Experts Group format bitmap graphics. |
| .JPEG |
|
JPEG Joint Photography
Experts Group format bitmap graphics. |
| .JPG |
|
JPEG
bitmap image produced by various programs. |
| .MCW |
|
MacWrite II -
MS Word for Macintosh text document. |
| .MME |
|
Multi-Purpose
Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) email format. |
| .MP |
|
MPEG compressed
movie file. |
| .MP2 |
|
Sound
file (MPEG-1 Layer II Audio Stream). |
| .MP3 |
|
Sound file (MPEG-1
Layer III Audio Stream). |
| .MPA |
|
Sound
file (MPEG-1 Audio Stream). |
| .MPG |
|
MPEG movie animation,
various platforms. |
| .MPT |
|
Bitmap
graphics (Multipage TIFF). |
| .MOV |
|
Movie (QuickTime
for Microsoft Windows, AutoCAD/AutoFlix). |
| .NXT |
|
Sound
file (NeXT format). |
| .P65 |
|
Pagemaker 6.5
document. |
| .PCT |
|
PICT
drawing (picture file for Macintosh and others). |
| .PDF |
|
Adobe Acrobat
Portable Document Format file (cross platform). |
| .PGP |
|
Pretty
Good Privacy encrypted file. |
|
.PIC |
|
Picture file
(PC Paint, Lotus, SDSC Image Tool, Macintosh) 3D Image file (SoftImage). |
| .PKA |
|
Compressed
file archive (PKArc). |
| .PS |
|
Adobe Postscript
document (text/graphics). |
| .PSD |
|
Adobe
Photoshop bitmap graphics file format. |
| .QBW |
|
QuickBooks for
Windows spreadsheet. |
| .QTX |
|
QuickTime
extension. |
| .QXD |
|
Quark Express
document. |
| .RMM |
|
RealPlayer
audio file. |
| .RMP |
|
RealAudio audio
file. |
| .RPM |
|
RealAudio
plugin. |
| .RTF |
|
Rich Text Format
text document (many applications). |
| .SEA |
|
Self-expanding
archive (used by Stuffit for Mac files and possibly by others). |
| .SIT |
|
Compressed archive
of Mac files (Stuffit). |
| .SMI |
|
Disk
Image (very acurate self extracting file archive). |
| .SND |
|
Sound file (Sun/NeXT/Tandy/Apple
Macintosh Sound file formats). |
| .SPM |
|
WordPerfect
Data file. |
| .TAR |
|
Compressed file
tape archives (tar). |
| .TIF |
|
Tag
image bitmap file (TIFF) Multi-platform pictures from various programs. |
| .TTF |
|
Truetype Font. |
| .TXT |
|
ASCII
text files, also for music. Multi-platform. |
| .UU |
|
UU-encoded compressed
file, UNIX platform. |
| .UUE |
|
Encoded
file archive (ascii) (uuencode). |
| .VBS |
|
Script file (Microsoft
Visual Basic for Windows) The ILOVEYOU virus was a .vbs file. |
| .VOC |
|
Sound
file (Creative Lab's) (PlayVoc). |
| .WAV |
|
Sound
file (RIFF WAVE waveform audio format) (Media Player). |
| .WDB |
|
MS
Works Database file. |
| .WIZ |
|
Microsoft
Word Wizard. |
| .WP |
|
WordPerfect
Text document. |
| .WP4 |
|
WordPerfect
4.x Text document. |
| .WP5 |
|
WordPerfect
5.x Text document. |
| .WP6 |
|
WordPerfect
6.x Text document. |
| .WPD |
|
Text
document for WordPerfect 6.0 - PFS:WindowWorks. |
| .XLB |
|
MS
Excel Worksheet. |
| .XLC |
|
MS
Excel Chart. |
| .XLD |
|
MS
Excel Dialog sheet. |
| .XLK |
|
MS
Excel Backup. |
| .XLL |
|
MS
Excel XLL add-in. |
| .XLM |
|
MS
Excel Macro. |
| .XLS |
|
MS
Excel Spreadsheet. |
| .XLT |
|
MS
Excel Template. |
| .ZIP |
|
Zip file (Compressed
archive usually Windows) |
