A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.
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Is there a single catch-all-features tracked music format?
I have an archive of old(ish) tracked music in various formats - .mod, .s3m, .it and Commodore 64 .sid files.
Is there a single, well-supported, tracked music format with a super-set of the features ...
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Foobar - How to exclude non-music files?
I drop my "Music" folder to foobar2000, all songs are included in the playlist, but also the other files (like album-art.jpg) are also included. When I'm shuffling, those files appear on the list and ...
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Can VLC Player save an `.mpg` file?
I have a short family video on DVD. I've successfully used VLC player to save it as a file, but it has a file extension of .ps.
I want to put it in a Picasa album, but Picasa only recognizes videos ...
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How to read Daisy format book?
I have downloaded an ebook which as they had mention, is in daisy format. It is a zip file containing a number of files with strange extensions. How do I read it?
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What file extension does a tab delimited file have?
Comma delimited files usually have a file extension of .csv. What file extension should a tab delimited file have? When doing an export from Excel, it saves it as .txt when selecting tab delimited, ...
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Unable to open DicomViewer file without CD
I don't know if this question belongs here or not but it is an emergency for me.
I just got my father's angiogram report as a DICOM file but I am unable to view it. When I try to open the file I get ...
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Input file formats for lp printing command?
What type of file formats supported by UNIX and modern CUPS lp command?
I found that CUPS lp support PostScript. See:
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/man-mime.types.html
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Archive / compression formats or tools which support multiple file forks or streams?
Lately I've become interested in the ability of several filesystems including Apple's HFS+ and Microsoft's NTFS which support two or more data streams.
In Mac terminology these were most widely ...
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What Audio Format Is This?
I'm having trouble finding something to play this audio file, can anybody help? All I know is its file extension and it plays via Androids MediaPlayer. MediaInfo and GSpot doesn't give me anything.
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What is an “.ENG” audio file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a tool that can determine the file type from containing data?
I've recently came across a youtube video of a Renault Alpine A310 "sound test", where the sound ...
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Unpack audio files from StarForce protected container
I have a CD, on the CD there is an application which plays back some audio (there are 94 tracks in total)
The application requires star force driver to be installed to run. But I need to listen that ...
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How do I move a photo from the GIMP to Microsoft Office?
I am new to Gimp2. I am using the photo editing which I am manipulating correctly, changing the background etc. Then I save the final picture to "My Pictures" folder but the problem is I can't move ...
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Are there any picture formats support file truncation (apart from lwf)?
If you take only the leading part of jpg or jp2 or webp file, you'll get image with missing parts or decoding will fails entirely.
When I experimented with LuraWave special proprietary lwf, file ...
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How to view LuraWave images on Linux?
I have a number of images I compressed as LuraWave before I knew about advantages of open formats in general and Jpeg2000 or c44 in particular.
What is the simplest way to view *.lwf images in Linux?
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Who decides if file format is popular enough to have its own MIME type?
Who decides, if a program is popular enough to have its own MIME type?
Right now, I program something for dealing with .srt subtitles - and while on wikipedia, it has application/x-subrip MIME type, ...
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What file format to use for archiving the contents of a hard drive? [closed]
What file format should I use for archiving the contents of my 500GB internal drive?
I want the files to be compressed, while maintaining the ability to get at the files years down the line.
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converting Kindle files
I've never bought anything on Amazon Kindle store and I don't have a Kindle. Is there any chance for me to buy a book there and convert it into a file format I could read on my non-kindle ebook ...
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Export Photoshop Paths to txt
I'm looking for a tool that extracts paths from Photoshop files and saves them in a human-readable format (ad-hoc text format, xml whatever).
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Convert old videos to have smaller sizes
I have some videos from a few years ago,with various formats, such as avi, mpg, wmv, rm, rmvb, .... Their sizes are huge(more than 500 MB, and sometimes > 1GB).
Given there may likely be some ...
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Search for particular file type in a particular website
How can I search for particular type of files (i.e. PDF) from a website? Can I use Google to do this?
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Open source, command-line tool to convert Excel .xls to .xlsx without Excel
I'm looking for an open source, command-line tool to convert files from the old, binary Excel ".xls" format to the new (Excel 2007) Open XML .xlsx, without Excel installed, on a Windows PC.
Ideas?
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What is the file format for storing PGP private keys?
I tried to understand it from RFC and from source code (mainly from gnupg and gpgme) and I didn't get the way the data should be stored when someone export secret keys.
I know there should be ...
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How do I open a “Acrobat X” document without the newest version?
When I open a certain PDF file I get the following error:
For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in
Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, or later.
Get Adobe Reader Now!
I have Foxit Reader ...
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What is an i3d file, and how can I read it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I find out about an unknown file extension?
What is the .i3d file extension? How can I read/edit such files?
(Googling isn't helping much, because "3d" is a ...
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Generating and collaborating on network map diagrams?
I have to turn out some network topology maps for very large networks. I'd like the format for the maps to be something other people can also edit and contribute to regardless of what software I'm ...
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Identifying plot format
I have program writing unknown (for me) plot format. Please help identifying.
file.plo:
ax 16 16
xr 0 3500
yr 0 3500
tc 7 5 7 5
ra -12 6. 5. 0.1 0.1 0.963
dr
ra -12 9. 5. 0.1 0.1 0.219
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Opening Forwarded emails from Mac Users
I am running Outlook 2007. Whenever a mac user forwards me an email, it has a MIME type, "x-apple-msg-attachment" . What program can I use to view such messages? Outlook won't open them.
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Hyperlinking to other files in Word 2010
What I’m finding is that hyperlinks to bookmarks in other existing files still won’t work because standard Word 2010 file format appears to be .xml, which doesn’t support bookmarks.
You get this ...
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File format of encrypted file
I am interested in understanding the format of the encrypted files produced by the application Data Guardian.
From what I can tell some sort of transformation of the password is stored in the field ...
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Can MP4s be 480p?
If I’m not mistaken, as a container format, MP4 videos should be able to contain videos that are 480p. Also, from what I am able to find, the MPEG-4 video format does not have a limitation that ...
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Lightweight source code beautifier [closed]
I am looking for a lightweight PHP prettyprint (beautification) tool. In Netbeans, I can Right-click and select Format to format source code. Is there a text editor with the same capability?
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Change line endings and delimiter format (permanently) when saving to CSV from Excel
I'm using Excel on Mac and it's always painful to have to reopen all exported CSVs in another text editor just to change the line endings from "CR" to "LF" and the delimiter from ";" to ","
Is there ...
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What are the .efires files on OS X Lion's Recovery HD?
If you mount the Recovery HD that enables OS X Lion File Vault 2, Safari mode, and certain recovery options, you see several .efires files. What format are those and what do they contain?
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How to “clean” a PSD file before publishing?
I want to upload .psd (Photoshop CS5) files to a subversion repository, and since the format seems so... comprehensive (or maybe just bloated and convoluted), I'd like to just publish the core of the ...
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Program to dump ID3 tag structure
Is there a program that would dump the complete structure of ID3v2 tags?
Not just the frame names and values, but full information such as frame order, text encoding, description encoding (for TXXX ...
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Where is synchronization information stored in container formats?
Multiple audio streams, video streams and subtitles are stored in one container. These are played back together.
Where is the synchronization information stored in the container format? In meta-data ...
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vim “modeline” equivalent for eclipse?
In our project different developers use different editing tools. Some use vim, some use eclipse. The nature of the project requires some files with DOS line endings, some with Unix line endings. It ...
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Preview CR2 (raw photo format) in Windows XP
How can I get thumbnails for Canon RAW (*.CR2) photos in Windows XP's Explorer?
Do I have to install a codec, and if so, which one?
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Which file formats can be played slower (or faster) than normal in Windows Media Player?
Some file formats (or some files that are coded used some codecs) can be played in Windows Media Player "slow" or "fast". I can enable this by right clicking on the movie while watching, clicking ...
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What markup language is this? (ca. 1991)
I am preserving a manuscript written by my father. The data files are on 5.25" floppy. I have successfully read the files off the disks, but neither of us knows what format the markup language is. It ...
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Why provide a postscript document?
I have seen many people linking postscript versions of their resume along with the pdf versions.
What purpose does it serve?
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Are you allowed to come up with ANY desired file extension? (for Unix, Linux, Windows)
I want to create a file called "message" that contains text only. How does the system know what program to use to read it if I decide to call it:
message.txt?
message.dat?
message.enc?
message.cpz?
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How can I make Excel NOT ask about saving to a specific file format?
We have a VBScript called from desktops that writes start / end times to a tab delimited file (with an .xls extension) as a timelog.
When someone opens this file in Excel, and then wants to close it, ...
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Playlist file format for video segments
Is there a playlist file format listing segments of files instead of entire files?
For example it would start playing a file jumping straight to 3'12", play it untill 5'42" and switch to the next ...
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What are .md files?
I often see files with a ".md" extension. I usually open them with a text editor like Gedit and I can read them just fine.
So – why do they use .md files and not say .txt files?
Can somebody explain ...
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How can I tell what version of the dBASE format a .dbf file is?
I have a variety of dbf files I am currently working with and it would be helpful for me to know the exact version of the dBASE format they are in, e.g. dBASE III, IV, 5.0, etc.
Is there a way to ...
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How do you save an Excel document as a Word document?
I was hoping someone could tell me how to save a Microsoft Office Excel document to the Microsoft Office Word document format?
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I'm looking to save an irregular-shaped image - what is/are most popular formats supporting irregular images?
I have an irregular shaped picture I'd like to save, in a format which allows the irregular shape to be preserved. Which image formats should I look at, which will support the irregular shape so I ...
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What type of file has a number as the file extension?
https://github.com/anatol/tup/blob/master/tup.1
It seems barely readable, what editor do I need for this?
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Excel version confusion
I got an Excel file, actually it's a zip file which contains many folders and files including sheets in XML format. When I try to open it, Excel 2003 says "The file is not in a recognizable format"
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