Look up file, files, or filing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. File or filing may refer to: File (tool), a tool used to remove fine amounts of material...

colloquially pronounced /ˌpiːɛnˈdʒiː/ PEE-en-JEE) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved...

a file association associates a file with an application capable of opening that file. More commonly, a file association associates a class of files (usually...

A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders. The most common operations performed...

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The original series aired from September 10, 1993 to May 19...

In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access. A local file system is a capability of...

ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed...

In computing, file virtualization is a field of storage virtualization operating on computer file level. It involves uniting multiple storage devices...

The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers. The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical...

file management Data hierarchy File camouflage File copying File conversion File deletion File directory File manager File system Filename Flat-file database...

A file signature is data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or magic bytes and are usually...

The BMP file format, or bitmap, is a raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device (such...

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting...

Hex file, hex file format or hex record may refer to: Intel hex format, a hex file format by Intel since 1973 Digital Research hex format, a hex file format...

computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or other input/output resource...

A text file (sometimes spelled textfile; an old alternative name is flat file) is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of...

"Everything is a file" is an approach to interface design in Unix derivatives. While this turn of phrase does not as such figure as a Unix design principle...

In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed...

A batch file is a script file in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It consists of a series of commands to be executed by the command-line interpreter,...

display the results. Some widely used file comparison programs are diff, cmp, FileMerge, WinMerge, Beyond Compare, and File Compare. Because understanding changes...

A configuration file, a.k.a. config file, is a file that stores data used to configure a software system such as an application, a server or an operating...

An INI file is a configuration file for computer software that consists of plain text with a structure and syntax comprising key–value pairs organized...

binary file is a computer file that is not a text file. The term "binary file" is often used as a term meaning "non-text file". Many binary file formats...

The Android Package with the file extension apk is the file format used by the Android operating system and a number of other Android-based operating systems...

The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses. It is a plain text file. Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was...

A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital...

File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents...

a list of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format's name...

File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application and default desktop environment that is included with releases of the...

a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file. There are...