See also: Glossary
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.ART
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files are used by AOL in thier online service
and are being supported for display in thier
AOLPRESS browser/editor from
GNN. The .ART file format and development
tools were created by Johnson-Grace
Corporation and appear to be available to developers only (or possibly
not available since thier aquisition by AOL)
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.BAT
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Batch Files - DOS COMMAND.COM
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.COM
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Command - DOS Loader
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.DBF and
.NDX/.MDX/.NTX/.IDX
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xBase database files and related index types for dBase, Clipper, and Foxpro
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.EXE
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Executable - DOS Loader
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.GIF
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files are the defacto standard for raster image graphics on the World Wide
Web. see also: services
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.HEX
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Hex Files
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.HLP
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WinHelp or Windows help files
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.HTM/.HTML
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Hyper Text Markup Language. A subset
of SGML
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ISBN
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A system for numbering books
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PCL
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Printer Control Language.
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PDF
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Portable Document Format. From Adobe Systems
Corp
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PGML
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The Precision Graphics Markup
Language is the Adobe / IBM / Netscape / SUN proposed extension of HTML
for Vector Graphics. Although it was submited before the VML proposal, the
W3 Commity commented on VML (very positivly) and has not (as of 98/07/28)
commented on PGML. (Read: W3 is owned by Microsoft)
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.TXT
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text files. On PC systems, these are ASCII text
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.VCF
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v-card .VCF files; they are an electronic version of a business card (rfc
2426) supported by yahoo, palm pilots, etc.... (see: http://www.imc.org/pdi/
or http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc2426.txt) that Outlook
automatically attaches to every email.
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.VML
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The Vector Markup Language is
the Microsoft / Hewlett Packard / Visio / Autodesk / MacroMedia proposed
extension of HTML for Vector Graphics. VML is defined as a part of XML
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.WMF
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Windows Meta File. see also:
Caolán McNamara's
Guide
for non-windows programmers
See also: