Editing List of file formats (section)

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This is a '''list of file formats''' used by [[computer]]s, organized by type. [[Filename extension]] is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the [[file format]]'s name or abbreviation. Many [[operating system]]s do not limit filenames to one extension shorter than 4 characters, as was common with some operating systems that supported the [[File Allocation Table]] (FAT) file system. Examples of operating systems that do not impose this limit include [[Unix-like]] systems, and [[Microsoft Windows]] [[Windows NT|NT]], [[Windows 95|95]]-[[Windows 98|98]], and [[Windows Me|ME]] which have no three character limit on extensions for [[32-bit]] or [[64-bit]] applications on [[file system]]s other than pre-Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5 versions of the FAT file system. Some filenames are given extensions longer than three characters. While MS-DOS and NT always treat the suffix after the last period in a file's name as its extension, in UNIX-like systems, the final period does not necessarily mean that the text after the last period is the file's extension.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.linfo.org/filename_extension.html|title=Filename extension definition|website=The Linux Information Project|access-date=1 February 2019}}</ref>

Some file formats, such as <code>.txt</code> or <code>.text</code>, may be listed multiple times.