Here is a list of the most common file formats found on the Internet:
au/aiff Common sound file format asp Active server pages avi Audio-video file format bin Mac binary II encoded file cda Compact disk audio doc Microsoft word document exe Windows executable file gif Graphical interchange format gz Gnu version of zip. Common on Unix systems htm/html Hyper text markup language, web pages jpg/jpeg 24 bit graphic format mid/midi Musical instrument file mim Multipurpose Internet mail extensions mpg/mpeg Standard movie format mov/qt QuickTime movie. Apple's movie format pdf Portable document format. Used to publish documents png Graphics format similar to gif ppt Power Point presentation ps Postscript file. Used for printing documents ra/ram Real Audio file rm Real movie file rar Compressed file format similar to zip sea Stuffit self-extracting file shtml HTML with server side includes sit Stuffit archive. Compressed file tar Compressed files common with Unix tiff High quality image format txt Plain text file uu/uue Unix file used to send binary files through email wav Windows sound file z Unix compressed file format zip Windows compressed file format
