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File Extensions for Archives and
Encoded files
Here is a list of common file extensions for archive files and encoded
files. If someone sends you a file with an extension that matched
below chances are it is compressed data file with the data you are looking
for inside of it.
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Zip files: *.zip
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All archives *.zip, *.z, *.gz, *.tz, *.taz,
*.tgz, *.lzh, *.arj, *.arc, *.tar, *.cab, .rar, .ace
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Encoded files: *.uu, *.uue, *.xxe, *.bhx,
*.b64, *.hqx, *.mim
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Archives and .exe files: *.zip, *.z,
*.gz, *.tz, *.taz, *.tgz, *.lzh, *.arj, *.arc, *.tar, *.cab, *.exe
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Archives, encoded, and .exe files *.zip,
*.z, *.gz, *.tz, *.taz, *.tgz, *.lzh, *.arj, *.arc, *.tar, *.cab, *.exe,
*.uu, *.uue, *.xxe, *.bhx, *.b64, *.hqx, *.mim
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If you have a program like WinZip,
WinRAR or unACE, it will be able to extract the information out of
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