list_of_filename_extensions
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List of Filename Extensions
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This alphabetical list of filename extensions contains extensions of notable file formats used by multiple notable applications or services.
A–E
F–L
M–R
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| Ext. | Description | Used by |
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assembler source code file | Unix |
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Seed7 library / include file | Seed7 interpreter and compiler |
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<ref> </ref> |
Spatial Archive and Interchange Format | |
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<ref name=“SASS”> </ref> |
Sass stylesheet language, indented-format | |
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ACIS ACIS .sat | |
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SPSS tabular data (binary) | PSPP, SPSS |
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Scratch project | Scratch |
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Scratch 2.0 project | Scratch |
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Scratch 3.0 project | Scratch |
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Header | ScriptBasic |
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Superbase RDBMS form definition data | Superbase (database) |
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For experimental extensions to Scratch | Used by scratchX (scratchx.org) |
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Scala source code file | Scala (programming language) |
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Scheme source code file | |
| SCR | Screen Protector file | Windows Screen Protector |
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<ref name=“SASS” /> |
Saas stylesheet language, block-formatted with braces and semicolons to denote end-of-line | |
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<ref> </ref> |
SQL Server Compact database file | Microsoft SQL Server Compact |
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Seed7 source file | Seed7 interpreter and compiler |
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Self Defining Structure provides for N-dimensional very large datasets using HHCode | geographic information systems and relational database management systems |
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Spatial Data Transfer Standard | |
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Secret key ring file | Pretty Good Privacy RSA System |
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Self extraction directive file | IExpress |
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Video | Tiertex video sequence |
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JAR Digital Signature | |
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Configuration file | emacs |
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SFX (self-extracting archives) script | RAR |
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Unix shell script | Unix shell interpreter |
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Shell self-extracting archive | UNSHAR (Unix) |
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SSI-enabled HTM file | Server Side Includes |
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SSI-enabled HTML file | Server Side Includes |
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Shape entities ESRI shapefile | AutoCAD ArcGIS |
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Signature file | gpg, PopMail, ThunderByte AntiVirus |
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S-Lang source code file | |
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SMALLTALK source code file | |
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Secret Maryo Chronicles Level | Secret Maryo Chronicles |
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Smacker video Format (RAD Video) | |
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SNOBOL4 source code file | |
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shared object, dynamically linked library | Unix, Linux |
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data | SQR Portable Format |
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<ref> </ref> |
Still Picture Interchange File Format | |
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Spin source file | Parallax Propeller Microcontrollers |
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SPSS program file (text) | PSPP, SPSS |
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SPITBOL source code file | |
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<ref name=“ogg-mime”> </ref><ref name=“iana”> </ref> |
Ogg Speex bitstream | Xiph.Org Foundation |
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Crestron SIMPL Windows compiled program (ZIP format) | Crestron SIMPL Windows |
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Structured Query Language | Any SQL database |
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Celestia Solar System Catalog file | Celestia |
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Stellarium Script | Stellarium |
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SMALLTALK source code file | Little Smalltalk |
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Celestia Star Catalog file | Celestia |
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OpenOffice.org XML spreadsheet template | OpenOffice.org Calc |
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OpenOffice.org XML drawing template | OpenOffice.org Draw |
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OpenOffice.org XML presentation template | OpenOffice.org Impress |
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<ref name=“jalview-fileformats”> </ref> |
Stockholm multiple sequence alignment | Bioinformatics tools eg HMMER, Xrate, Jalview |
| STL | surface geometry of a three-dimensional object | software by 3D Systems |
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SSI-enabled HTML file | Server Side Includes |
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<ref name=“jalview-fileformats” /> |
Stockholm multiple sequence alignment | Bioinformatics tools eg HMMER, Xrate, Jalview |
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Standard for the Exchange of Product Data | universal format for CAD exchange per ISO 10303 |
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OpenOffice.org XML text document template | OpenOffice.org Writer |
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Surface topography (in native “SURF” format) | MountainsMap |
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Represents the ServiceHost instance hosted by Internet Information Services | Windows Communication Foundation |
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Scalable Vector Graphics | many |
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<ref name=“swfspec10”> </ref> |
Shockwave Flash | Macromedia, Adobe Flash Player |
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SWIG source code | SWIG |
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Swift source code | Swift (programming language) |
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split Windows Imaging Format | ImageX, DISM, 7-Zip, wimlib |
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OpenOffice.org XML spreadsheet | OpenOffice.org Calc |
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OpenOffice.org XML drawing | OpenOffice.org Draw |
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OpenOffice.org XML master document | |
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OpenOffice.org XML presentation | OpenOffice.org Impress |
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OpenOffice.org XML formula | OpenOffice.org Calc |
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3DS Process file | 3D Studio |
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OpenOffice.org XML text document | OpenOffice.org Writer |
| SYLK | Symbolic Link (SYLK) file | Windows |
| SYMBOLICLINK | Replace file for a symbolic link | Unix-like OSs |
T
| Ext. | Description | Used by |
|---|---|---|
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Audio codec, Lossless audio file format | Winamp (+Plugin), foobar2000 (+Plugin), Media Player Classic - BE |
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tar archive | tar, many file archivers with TAR support |
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compressed tar archive | tar, many file archivers with TAR and COMPRESS support |
| TC | Theme Colour file | Saturn CMS |
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Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter image | |
| THM | Thumbnail File | GoPro Android (not every) iOS (Accessible via computer or Jailbreak, on User/Media/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM) |
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See TIFF | |
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Tag Image File Format image | |
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<ref> </ref> |
Type library | A binary file with information about a COM or DCOM object so other applications can use it at runtime. Created by Visual C++ or Visual Studio. Used by many Windows applications. |
| TMP<ref>
</ref> |
Temporary file | |
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<ref name=“bep0003”> </ref> |
Torrent file | BitTorrent clients (various) |
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MPEG transport stream | Video broadcasting, digital video cameras |
| TS<ref name=typescript>
</ref> |
TypeScript | |
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<ref name=IANA> </ref> |
Tab-separated values | |
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TrueType Font collection | |
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TrueType Font file |
U
| Ext. | Description | Used by |
|---|---|---|
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Espire source code file | Geoworks UI Compiler Geos |
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Qt Designer's UI File | Trolltech Qt Designer |
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Umple UML Programming Language Format | Umple |
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Text file containing finite elements nodal coordinates and more See notes | Originally used by SDRC for its I-deas software; a lot of simulation software use it today |
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Uniform Office Format spreadsheet | |
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Uniform Office Format text | |
| UPS | ROM patch file | |
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Remote file shortcut | Microsoft Windows |
| USDZ | Augmented Reality (AR) File | Apple, Pixar |
| UST | Vocal synthesis track data | UTAU |
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datafile | uTorrent |
V
| Ext. | Description | Used by |
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Coq source file | |
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Verilog source file | |
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vvvv patch | vvvv |
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Visual Basic .Net source file | Visual Basic .NET |
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<ref> </ref> |
virtual machine settings file (in XML format) | VirtualBox |
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<ref> </ref> |
VirtualBox extension package | VirtualBox |
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Visual Basic .Net project file | Visual Basic .Net Express and Visual Studio 2003-2010 Project |
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Visual Basic Custom Control file | Visual Basic |
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VBScript script file | VBScript |
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Visual Basic eXtension | Visual Basic |
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Graphite - 2D and 3D drafting | Ashlar-Vellum |
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VocaListener voice scanner file | VocaListener Plug-in (Vocaloid3) |
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Targa bitmap graphics | many raster graphics editors |
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Virtual Disk Image | VirtualBox |
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Visio web drawing | Microsoft Visio |
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Visio XML drawing | Microsoft Visio |
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Virtual Floppy Disk | Windows Virtual PC (among others) |
| VI | Virtual Instrument | LabVIEW |
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Hyper-V Exported Virtual Machine | Microsoft |
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<ref name=“vmdk-disk-format”> </ref> |
Virtual Disk file | VMware |
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Nokia message file format | Text Message Editor (Nokia PC Suite) |
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Video Object | DVD-R, DVD-RW |
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Valve package | Source engine games |
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Garmin Voice Processing Module | |
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Visual Paradigm Project | Visual Paradigm for UML |
| VPR | Vocal synthesizer track data | Vocaloid 5 |
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Hardware description language | Altera |
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LateX Beamer file containing verbatim commands | LaTeX Beamer |
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Veeam reversed incremental backup archive | Veeam software |
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Vellum Solids | Ashlar-Vellum |
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Visio drawing | Microsoft Visio |
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<ref> </ref> |
Visio drawing | Microsoft Visio |
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Visual Simulation Model | VisSim |
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Vocal synthesizer track data | Vocaloid 2 |
| VSQx | Vocal synthesizer track data | Vocaloid 3, Vocaloid 4 |
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Truevision Vista graphics | many raster graphics editors |
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Microsoft Office add-in file | Microsoft Visual Studio |
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VisualSVN Server repository backup | VisualSVN Server |
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Valve Texture Format file<ref>
</ref> |
Valve Corporation |
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Visual Understanding Environment map | Visual Understanding Environment |
| VVVVVV | VVVVVV map file | VVVVVV |
W
| Ext. | Description | Used by |
|---|---|---|
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Sound format (Microsoft Windows RIFF WAVE) | Media Player |
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Royalty-free video/audio container | HTML5 |
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Game save file for The Witness | The Witness |
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Spreadsheet | Lotus 1-2-3 version 2.x - Lotus Symphony 1.1+ |
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Spreadsheet | Lotus 1-2-3 version 3.x |
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Spreadsheet | Lotus 1-2-3 version 1A - Lotus Symphony 1.0, Microsoft Works |
| WLMP | Windows Live Moviemaker Project, contains paths from where the images/audios/videos of the project are located | Windows Live Movie Maker<ref>
</ref> |
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Windows Media Audio file Advanced Systems Format | |
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Windows Media Player database | Windows Media Player |
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Windows MetaFile vector graphics | |
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Windows Media Video file Advanced Systems Format | |
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WoS bibliographic reference file | ISI/Clarivate Analytics |
X
| Ext. | Description | Used by |
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LEX source code file | |
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XBasic Source code file | Xbasic |
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x3d and xdart Formats | |
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Xara graphics file | Files created by Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (formerly Xara Xtreme and Xara Studio); early versions used the extension ART |
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eXtensible ARchive | xar, 7-Zip |
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eXtensible Business Reporting Language instance file | eXtensible Business Reporting Language |
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Gimp image file | GNU Image Manipulation Program |
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Directory Manipulator for 32-bit Protected Mode | Xenotech Research Labs |
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Xenon - for Associative 3D Modeling | Ashlar-Vellum |
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Xbox 360 Executable File | |
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<ref> </ref> |
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet | Microsoft Excel |
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Microsoft Excel 2007 Binary Workbook (BIFF12)(Spreadsheets) | Microsoft Excel 2007 (see Microsoft Office 2007 file extensions) |
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Microsoft Excel 2007 Macro-Enabled Workbook (Spreadsheets) | Microsoft Excel 2007 (see Microsoft Office 2007 file extensions) |
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<ref> </ref> |
Office Open XML Workbook (Spreadsheets) | Microsoft Excel 2007 (see Microsoft Office 2007 file extensions) |
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FastTracker 2 extended module | AWAVE, Mod4Win, FastTracker, ImpulseTracker |
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eXtensible Markup Language file | |
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eXtensible Music Format | |
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eXtended Pattern | FastTracker 2 |
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X-Plane system file | Laminar research |
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Open XML Paper Specification / OpenXPS | open standard document format initially created by Microsoft and similar in concept to Adobe PDF files |
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<ref> </ref><ref> </ref> |
XML schema description | |
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data | Microsoft InfoPath file |
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<ref name=“XSL”> </ref> |
XSL Stylesheet | |
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<ref name=“XSL” /> |
XSLT file | |
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Microsoft InfoPath template | Microsoft InfoPath |
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XML Sharable Playlist Format | |
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XX-encoded file (ASCII) | XXDECODE |
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XX-encoded file (ASCII) | XXDECODE |
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Singer Embroidery Format | Embroidermodder |
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Molecular coordinates | XMol, RasMol |
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a lossless data compression file format incorporating the LZMA/LZMA2 compression algorithms. | xz |
Y
| Ext. | Description | Used by |
|---|---|---|
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YACC grammar file | Yacc/Bison |
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<ref> </ref> |
YML markup file | domain specific language output to XML |
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<ref name=“YAML Version 1.2”> </ref> |
YAML source file | YAML (data serialization language) |
Z
| Ext. | Description | Used by |
|---|---|---|
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<ref> </ref> |
Zip (file format) | PKZip - WinZip - Mac OS X |
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REXX scripting language for ZOC_(software) | ZOC terminal emulator |
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Script for Minecraft mod MineTweaker<ref>
</ref> and CraftTweaker<ref> </ref> |
Minecraft Mods |
See also
References
External links
- Snippet from Wikipedia: List of filename extensions
Lists of filename extensions include:- List of filename extensions (0–9)
- List of filename extensions (A–E)
- List of filename extensions (F–L)
- List of filename extensions (M–R)
- List of filename extensions (S–Z)
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