File Formats
Extension Remarks
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669 669 Sound Module file
ABM DeLuxePaint Animation brush
'ADEX' ADEX ChromaGraph graphics cards image file
ADP ADPCM compressed audio file
AMF AMF Sound Module file
ANM DeLuxePaint Animation file
'AR7' AR7s E-Mailable archive
ARC ARC archive file
ARJ ARJ archive file
AU Audio data file
AVI Audio/Video file (Video for Windows)
BGI Borland/Binary Graphic Interface file
BMP Windows and OS/2 BitMapped pictures
BMP Alpha BMP picture
CHR Borland Character file
CMF Creative Music File (Sound Blaster)
DDI DiskDupe Image file
DIR PCBackup directory file
DRW MicroGrafx Draw file
DWG Autodesk AutoCAD .DWG file
DXF Autodesk AutoCAD .DXF file
'EPSF' Encapsulated PostScript File
EXE Executable files
LZEXE compressed executables
PKLITE compressed executables
DIET compressed executables
PGMPAK compressed executables
STIRLING compressed executables
PROPACK compressed executables
ARJ, LHA, PKZIP and RAR SFX archives
Windows executable files
FLI Autodesk Animator FLI animation
GIF Graphics Interchange Format picture
GIS Erdas image file
GM Autologic image file
GRP Windows Group file
HAP HAP archive file
HLP Windows help file
Norton Guide help file
HPK HPACK archive file
HYP HYPER archive file
IFF Interchange File Format
IMG GEM Image file
JPG JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
KFX Kofax file
LAN Erdas image file
LBM ILBM InterLeaved BitMap
LHW LHWARP compressed disk-image file
LZH LZH archive file
MID MIDI music file
MIF MAWEK Image Format (pictures/sound/text/animations)
MOD Music Module file
MOV QuickTime movie file
MPG MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
MSP MS Paint file
MTM Multi Tracker Module file
MTS MTS music file
NLM NetWare Loadable Module
ORG Organ data file (Sound Blaster)
PAK PAK archive file
PAL DrHalo palette file
PCD PhotoCD picture
PCK MAWEK PACK archive file
PCX PC Paintbrush picture
PNG Portable Network Graphics picture
PUB Microsoft Publisher file
QT Quick Time movie
RAR RAR archive file
RAS Sun Raster file
RIF RIFF Reversed IFF format
RLE Windows RLE picture
RNC ProPack archive file
ROL ROL music file
RTF Rich Text Format file
S3M Scream Tracker 3 Music file
SBK Emu SoundFont Bank (AWE32) file
SCX ColorRIX file
SGI Silicon Graphics Image
SNG Voyetra music file
SQZ Squeeze It! archive file
STM Scream Tracker Music file
STS Scream Tracker Song file
SYS System Device Driver
T64 C64 Emulator tape file
TD0 TeleDisk disk image
TGA Targa picture
TIF TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TPU Turbo Pascal Unit
TTF True Type Font file
UC2 UltraCompressor II archive file
VI Jovian VI image file
VOC Sound Sample
'WP' WordPerfect file
WAD DOOM .WAD file
WKS Lotus/Symphony Worksheet file
WK1 Lotus/Symphony .WK1 file
WMF Windows Metafile
WQ1 Quattro .WQ1 file
WRI MS Write text file
WRK CakeWalk music file
ZIP PKZIP archive file
Extensions between quotes are not the 'real' extensions.
Notice that EDIR doesn't look at the extension at all to
identify a file, it examines the file.