Appendix Filename Extensions Part 2

Filename Extensions

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Extensions - Part 2 - M to Z

.M3D Motion 3D - Corel (filename extension).

.MAC MacPaint

.MAF Microsoft Access Form (filename extension).

.MAK Makefile

.MAM Microsoft Access Macro (filename extension).

.MAP Map - linkage editor

.MAQ Microsoft Access Query (filename extension).

.MAR Microsoft Access Report (filename extension).

.MAT Microsoft Access Table (filename extension).

.MCS MathCAD format

.MCW Microsoft Word for Macintosh (filename extension).

.MDB Access database

.MDX Multi-index

.MET Metafile - OS/2

.MEU Menu

.MFF MIDI File Format (filename extension).

.MGF Micrografx Draw Font (filename extension).

.MI Miscellaneous (filename extension).

.MIC Microsoft Image Composer (filename extension).

.MID MIDI

.MIFF An ImageMagick file format

.MIL Group 4

.mime MIME (filename extension); the encoding format used by the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension.

.MME Mime encoded file (filename extension); the encoding format used by the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension.

.MMF Microsoft Mail File (filename extension).

.MMM Macromind animation

.MOD A music file format that contains digitised sound samples A .MOD file takes more memory than a MIDI file because a MIDI file contains instructions for making sounds but not the actual sound samples. There are .MOD players for Amiga, PC, and Macintosh computers.

.moov QuickTime movie. This file can be viewed with QuickTime Player.

.MOV Movie - QuickTime

.movie QuickTime movie. This file can be viewed with QuickTime Player.

.MOZ Mozilla - Netscape cache file (filename extension).

.mp2 MPEG Layer II compressed audio. This file can be played using QuickTime Player and some other sound players.

.mp3 MPEG Layer III compressed audio. This file can be played with QuickTime Player, Real Player, and some other sound players.

.MPE MPEG (filename extension).

.MPEG MPEG movie or animation file. This file can be played with QuickTime Player.

.MPG MPEG encoded file. This file is an MPEG movie, and can be played with QuickTime Player.

.MPNT Macintosh MacPaint

.MPP Microsoft Project project file (filename extension).

.MPT Microsoft Project template file (filename extension).

.MPX Microsoft Project export file (filename extension).

.MRK Markup - Informative Graphics

.MSG Message file

.MSN Microsoft Network document (filename extension).

.MSP Microsoft Paint

.MUS Music (filename extension).

.MVB Microsoft Multimedia Viewer (filename extension).

.MYS Myst saved game file (filename extension).

.NDX Index - dBASE

.NET Network file (filename extension).

.NG Norton Guides

.NLM NLM program - NetWare

.NTF Notes Template File - Lotus Notes database (filename extension).

.OAB Outlook Address Book - Microsoft (filename extension).

.OAZ OAZ Fax

.OBD Microsoft Office Binder (filename extension).

.OBJ Object module

.OCX Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Custom Control (filename extension).

.OLB OLE Object Library (filename extension).

.OLE OLE object (filename extension).

.ONX Onyx Graphics Postershop (filename extension).

.ORI Original

.OVL Overlay module

.OVR Overlay module

.OZM Sharp Organizer memo bank

.OZP Sharp Organizer telephone bank

.P10 Tektronix Plot10

.PAB Personal Address Book - Microsoft (filename extension).

.PAK Quake game data (filename extension).

.PAL Paintbrush palette (filename extension).

.PAS Pascal program file

.PAT Pattern - Corel Draw (filename extension).

.PBK Microsoft Phonebook (filename extension).

.PBM Portable Bit Map

.PCD Photo CD format

.PCL HP LaserJet

.PCM LaserJet cartridge information

.PCS PICS animation (filename extension).

.PCT PC Paint

.PCW PC Write

.PCX 1. PC Paintbrush 2. Graphics file - Zsoft format

.PDG PrintShop Deluxe (filename extension).

.PDV PC Paintbrush printer driver

.PFA Type 1 font - ASCII

.PFB Type 1 font - encrypted

.PFM Postscript Font Metrics; Windows Type 1 font metrics

.PGL HPGL 7475A plotter - vector graphics

.PGM Portable Gray Map bitmap (filename extension).

.PHTML HTML document with preprocessing instructions (PPIs) (filename extension).

.PIC PICT graphics format, or PIXAR picture file

.PICT Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT This kind of file stores images in QuickDraw vector format. PICT2 can have grayscale bitmapped images also.

.PIF Program Information File - Windows

.PIT PackIt - Macintosh compression

.PIX Inset Systems graphics

.PJX Project file - Visual FoxPro (filename extension).

.pkg AppleLink package compression format These files are decodable by StuffIt Expander.

.PL Perl script (filename extension).

.PLT Plotter drawing (filename extension).

.PM PageMaker

.PM3 PageMaker 3 document

.PM4 PageMaker 4 document

.PM5 PageMaker 5 document

.PNG 1. Portable Network Graphics bitmap (filename extension). 2. Paint Shop Pro Browser (filename extension).

.POV Persistence Of Vision raytracer (filename extension).

.PPA PowerPoint Add-in - Microsoft (filename extension).

.PPD PostScript Printer Description

.PPM Portable PixelMap (filename extension).

.PPS PowerPoint Slideshow (filename extension).

.PPT PowerPoint presentation (filename extension).

.PRD Printer driver - Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Microsoft Works (filename extension).

.PRG A dBASE source code file

.PRJ Project file

.PRN 1. Print file - temporary 2. XyWrite printer driver 3. PostScript file

.PRS WordPerfect printer driver

.PRT Formatted text

.PS PostScript. This is a plain text file.

.PSD Photoshop Document

.PUB Publication - Ventura Publisher, Microsoft Publisher (filename extension).

.PWD Pocket Word document - Microsoft (filename extension).

.PWZ Microsoft PowerPoint Wizard (filename extension).

.PXL Microsoft Pocket Excel (filename extension).

.QBW QuickBooks for Windows (filename extension).

.QDK Quarterdeck Qemm (filename extension).

.QLB Quick Library (filename extension).

.QLC ATM font information

.QRY Microsoft Query (filename extension).

.qt QuickTime movie, binary file type (filename extension).

.QTM QuickTime Movie (filename extension).

.R8L LaserJet landscape font

.R8P LaserJet portrait font

.RA RealAudio

.RAM Real Audio

.RAS Raster graphics - Sun

.RAW Raw file format - bitmap (filename extension).

.rc A filename extension found in many UNIX files (.newsrc, etc.) which means 'run commands'.

.REC Windows Recorder macro file (filename extension).

.REG Registration file (filename extension).

.REP Report file (filename extension).

.RFT RFT-DCA (filename extension).

.RGB An SGI RGB image file

.RIA Alpharel Group IV raster graphics

.RIB Renderman graphics

.RIC Roch FaxNet

.RIF Fractal Painter bitmap (filename extension).

.RIFF Resource Interchange File Format A multimedia file format; the Microsoft equivalent to Amiga IFF format.

.RIX RIX virtual screen

.RLA Wavefront raster image

.RLC CAD Overlay ESP - Image Systems

.RLE Run Length Encoded

.RM Real Media.

.RMI RIFF MIDI file

.RND AutoShade format

.RNL GTX Runlength raster graphics

.RPT Report file (filename extension).

.RTF Microsoft text and graphics

.S Assembly language file - Unix

.S3M MOD music file (filename extension).

.SAM AmiPro

.SAV Saved game (filename extension).

.SBP IBM Storyboard graphics / Superbase text

.SC Source Code - Paradox

.SCM ScreenCam movie

.SCP Dial-up networking script (filename extension).

.SCR 1. Screensaver - Windows. 2. Screen Layout - dBASE. 3. Script for Apple's Disk Copy utility.

.SCT Screen Capture Text - Lotus

.SDL SmartDraw Library (filename extension).

.SEA Self-Extracting Archive (Stuffit or Compact Pro)

.SEG Segment (of a compressed file saved in segments with Stuffit or Compact Pro)

.SEP TIFF bitmap (filename extension).

.SET Setup parameters

.SFL LaserJet landscape font

.SFP LaserJet portrait font

.SFS PCL 5 scalable font

.shar UNIX shell archive (filename extension), which can be decoded by Unshar.

.SHTML HTML file with embedded server-side includes (SSIs) (filename extension).

.SI SoftImage image file

.sig Signature A .sig file can be set up and automatically attached to outgoing email, newsgroup postings, etc. It includes the name and contact information of the sender, and may also have ASCII art, favorite quotes, etc.

.SIT Stuffit compressed file

.SLD AutoCAD slide

.SLK Symbolic Link (SYLK) spreadsheet (filename extension).

.SMI Self-Mounting Image. This file is a Macintosh Disk Image, similar to an .img file, but it does not require the use of Disk Copy. When the file is downloaded, a disk image appears on the desktop. The disk image will behave like a read-only disk.

.SND Sound file

.SNM Netscape mail (filename extension).

.SPD Speedo scalable font

.spx Screen Peace Extension

.SQB SyQuest Backup (filename extension).

.SRC A file used in the creation of .INI files for configuration settings (filename extension).

.STY Style sheet - Ventura

.SVX Amiga 8SVX sound (filename extension).

.SWP Swap - temporary file (filename extension).

.SYD Sysedit backup file (filename extension).

.SYL SYLK spreadsheet format

.SYNU SDSC Synu image

.SYS System file

.TAL Adobe Type Align

.TAR Tape ARchive (filename extension). Tar is a UNIX method of archiving files, which can also be used by PCs. Tar archives files but does not compress them, so sometimes .tar files are compressed with other utilities, which produces extensions like .tar.gz, .tar.Z, and .tgz. Archive files with the .tar extension can be extracted in UNIX with tar or on a PC with WinZip or on the Mac with the program Tar.

.tar.gz Combined filename extension for a file that has been archived using tar and then gzipped.

.tar.z or .tar.Z Combined filename extension for a file that has been archived using tar and then zipped.

.TAZ Another way of writing .tar.Z

.TBK Asymetrix Toolbook (filename extension).

.TDF Typeface definition - Speedo

.TEX Tex or LaTex document

.TFM Font metrics - Intellifont

.TGA TARGA graphics

.TGZ Another name for .tar.z and .tar.gz

.THEME Desktop theme - Windows 95 (filename extension).

.THN Thumbnail (filename extension).

.TIF TIFF graphics file

.TIFF TIFF graphics file (filename extension).

.TLB OLE Type Library (filename extension).

.TMP Temporary file

.TOC Table Of Contents (filename extension).

.TRM Terminal settings - Windows (filename extension).

.TTC TrueType compressed font

.TTF TrueType font

.TWF TabWorks File (file extension).

.TX8 MS-DOS text (filename extension).

.TXT ASCII text file

.USL LaserJet landscape font

.USP LaserJet portrait font

.UU Uuencode compressed file

.UUE Uuencode file

.VBP Visual Basic Project (filename extension).

.VBX Visual Basic Extension

.VDA Targa bitmap (filename extension).

.VGR Ventura

.VIFF Khoros Visualization image file

.VLB Ventura Library (filename extension).

.VOC Sound Blaster

.VP Ventura Publisher (filename extension).

.VST Targa bitmap (filename extension).

.VUE Relational View - dBASE

.VXD Virtual Device Driver (filename extension).

.WAB Windows Address Book (filename extension).

.WAV Sound file

.WBK Microsoft Word Backup (filename extension).

.WDB Microsoft Works Database (filename extension).

.WID Ventura width table (filename extension).

.WIN Windows backup file (filename extension).

.WIZ Microsoft Word Wizard (filename extension).

.WK1 Lotus 1-2-3, up to 2.01

.WK3 Lotus version 3

.WK4 Lotus version 4

.WKQ Quattro spreadsheet

.WKS 1. Lotus Worksheet (filename extension). 2. Microsoft Works document (filename extension).

.WLR VRML page

.WMF Windows Metafile

.WP WordPerfect

.WPD 1. Windows Printer Description (filename extension). 2. WordPerfect Demo (filename extension). 3. WordPerfect Document (filename extension).

.WPG WordPerfect Graphics

.WPM WordPerfect macro

.WPS Microsoft Works document

.WPT WordPerfect Template (filename extension).

.WRI Windows Write document

.WRK Symphony spreadsheet

.WS1 WordStar for Windows 1 document (filename extension).

.WS2 WordStar for Windows 2 document (filename extension).

.WS3 WordStar for Windows 3 document (filename extension).

.WS4 WordStar for Windows 4 document (filename extension).

.WS5 WordStar for Windows 5 document (filename extension).

.WS6 WordStar for Windows 6 document (filename extension).

.WS7 WordStar for Windows 7 document (filename extension).

.WVL Wavelet compressed bitmap (filename extension).

.X AVS X image file

.XAR Corel Xara drawing (filename extension).

.XBM X Bitmap

.XFX JetFax

.XIF Xerox Image Format (filename extension).

.XLC Excel chart

.XLK Microsoft Excel backup (filename extension).

.XLM Microsoft Excel macro (filename extension).

.XLS Excel worksheet

.XLT Microsoft Excel template (filename extension).

.XM MOD music format (filename extension).

.XPM X Pixelmap

.WVL X Window System window dump image

.XXE Xxencoded file (filename extension).

.YAL Arts & Letters click art (filename extension).

.Z Unix compress file

.ZIP File compressed using PKZIP

.ZOO Zoo

Emoticons

Domain Suffixes