Is there a place to look up what a file extension means?

[eyor]

This would be incredibly useful. Does anyone know what a
.SEA
.R00
.RAR
or
.DIZ
file extension is?
Thanks

 

[LordSandMan]

.SEA is Self extracting Archive, It's used on Macs, I'm not sure if it can be uncompressed on PCs.
.RAR and .R00 I believe are compression formats that can be handled by Winrar. I think you can get it at download.com

 

[Noriaki]

not sure what .SEA is

.RAR is the first file in a Rar Archive set, .R00 is the 2nd, .R01 is the 3rd, .R02 is the 4th, and so on.

.DIZ isn't an archive...file_id.diz or whatever is what you are looking at right? It's some kind of checksum or something I think...not sure what it is, I used to see them all the times in my old Warez days I always just ignored them.

 

[goldboyd]

file_id.diz is usually just a ascii description of the archive. you should be able to read it with any text editor or just by typing type file_id.diz

 

[Ulysses]

Try "Every File Format in the World!"

 

[andrey]

I won't ask where you got all those files
If seriously,

*.DIZ is a text file which tells you the name of the program, how many files it contains, etc... Use notepad to open it.

*.SEA is usually SoundBlaster Live! presets

*.RAR, *.R00 - *.Rxx are archives (similar to *.ZIP, just supports splitting archive in more than one file). Use WinRAR to open those (start with *.RAR or *.Rxx with the lowest number)

I hope that helps,

 

[Big Lar]

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