File Formats & Extensions

The file archive uses various extensions, sometimes with multiple extensions in series. The extensions are summarized in the following table and links to the utility software needed to read these formats are provided.

Extension	File Format Info
.c	'C' language source file. Use gcc to compile to machine code.
.gz	Gzip compressed file. Use gzip or IZArc to decompress these files.
.pdf	Adobe Acrobat file. Use Acrobat Reader to view and print these files.
.ps	Adobe Postscript file. Use Ghostview to view and print these files. Ghostscript also does Postscript-to-ASCII conversions.
.tar	Unix Tape Archive file. Use your Unix's native tar command or on Windows try IZArc to handle these files.
.txt	ASCII Text file. Use standard text editor or browser.
.zip	PKZip compressed file archive. Use Info-Zip or IZArc to handle these files.