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~File Extensions
Meanings for Most of the Main Ones - By Simon Burrows
~Section 1 - Still Graphics Extensions
BMP - OS/2 or Windows Bitmap
CUT - Dr Halo
DIB - OS/2 or Windows DIB
GIF - Compuserve GIF
IFF - Amiga
IMG - GemPaint
JIF - JPEG, JFIF Compliant
JPG - JPEG, JFIF Compliant
LBM - Deluxe Paint
MAC - MacPaint
MSP - Microsoft Paint
PCD - Kodak Photo CD
PCX - Zsoft Paintbrush
PIC - PC Paint
RAS - Sun Raster Images
RLE - Compuserve or Windows
SDR - SuperSketch Sketches
TGA - Truvision Targa
TIF - Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
WMF - Windows Meta File
~Section 2 - Moving Graphics (animation) Extensions
ANI - Amiga/Deluxe Paint ANIM
FLC - Autodesk Animator FLIC (Ususally higher res. than below)
FLI - Autodesk Animator FLIC
RIF - Amiga Zeotrope
SEQ - Atari ST Cyber SEQ
~Section 3 - Sound and Music Extensions
CMF - Creative Music File
MID - Musical Instrument Digital Interface File
MOD - Module File (Usually 4 track)
MTM - Multi-Track Module (Between 8 and 16 tracks usually)
ROL - Roland File
SAM - General Music Sample
VOC - Creative Labs Voice File
WAV - Microsoft Wave File
~Section 4 - Word Processing Extensions
DCA - Displaywrite
DOC - Microsoft Word/Word for Windows
DOC - Wordperfect
RTF - RTF
WRI - Microsoft Write
WPS - Microsoft Works Word Processor
~Section 5 - Unformatted (DOS-Based) Text Extensions
NOTE: These are all purely guidelines and are by no means the
extensions always used, because ANY could be used.
1ST - Readme File (Usually README.1ST)
DOC - General Product Documentation
FAQ - Document of Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
HLP - Product Help File
MAN - Text-Based Manual File
ME - Readme File (Usually READ.ME)
NFO - Information Text
NOW - Readme File (Usually README.NOW)
TXT - General DOS Text
~Section 6 - Windows Extensions
BMP - OS/2 or Windows Bitmap
CAL - Calendar File
CLP - Clipboard File
CRD - Cardfile
GRP - Group File
ICO - Icon File
PAL - Paintbrush Colour File
PCX - Paintbrush File
PIF - Program Information File
REC - Macro Recorder File
TRM - Terminal File
WAV - Microsoft Wave File
WRI - Write File
~Section 7 - Archive Extensions
001 - Microsoft Backup (1st file is 001, 2nd, 002 etc.)
ARC - Pkarc Compressed
ARJ - Arj Compressed
LZH - Lharc/Lha Compressed
ZIP - Pkzip Compressed
DWC - ┐
LBR - │____Other compressed-file files
PAK - │ (not sure of software they're made from)
ZOO - ┘
~Section 8 - DOS Extensions
BAT - Batch Files
BAK - Edlin Memory-Disk File
BIN - Binary Files
COM - Command Files
CHK - Chkdsk Lost File Allocation File
CPI - Code-page Information File
EXE - Executable Files
LOG - Scandisk Log File (Usually SCANDISK.LOG)
REC - Recover Recovered File File
SYS - System Files
TMP - Temporary Files (also created by other software)
~Section 9 - General Gaming Extensions
NOTE: None of these are specific to any game, they are all
the most commonly used extensions for various jobs.
SAV - Save game
CFG - Configuration (what sound, graphics, memory etc.)
HIS - High Score Table Information
DRV - General Hardware Drivers (Joystick, SVGA Monitor etc.)