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.io file type #1: Modula-3 object

Files with io extension are related to Modula-3 programming language. An io file stores object.

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File extension io is associated with the Modula-3, a programming language. The io file stores objects.

Modula-3 is used in research circles (influencing the designs of languages such as Java, C#, and Python) it has not been adopted widely in industry.

It was designed by Luca Cardelli, Jim Donahue, Mick Jordan, Bill Kalsow and Greg Nelson at the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Systems Research Center (SRC) and Olivetti in the late 1980s.

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.io file type #2: Arabian Nights game data

An io file extension is associated with the Arabian Nights and used for its game data.

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The io file extension is related to the Arabian Nights, a 3D action adventure video game for Microsoft Windows operating system, released in 2002.

The io file stores various game data.

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.io file type #3: CPIO compressed file archive

Files with io file extension can be also found as archives created using the CPIO archiver on Linux.

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The io file extension is also occasionally used for one of the compressed archives created using the CPIO archiver. Linux file.

The cpio software utility was meant as a tape archiver that was originally part of PWB/UNIX, and that was also part of UNIX System III and UNIX System V.

However, the use of its Research Unix counterpart, tar, and the freely available versions thereof, are widely considered to be a better solution. cpio's use by the RPM Package Manager and by the Linux kernel 2.6 series' initramfs continues to make cpio an important archive format.

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.io file type #4: Io language script

An io file extension is related to the Io programming language. An io file contains script.

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The io file extension is related to the Io language and used for its script files.

Io is a small, prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects, all messages are dynamic), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).

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What is the meaning of a file extension?

File extensions are characters that appear after the dot in a computer file's name. For example, the file "unknown-file.io" has the file extension "io". This is used to identify which program should open the file or what file type it is.
File extensions help you organize and manage files. They provide a quick and easy way to identify and associate the file type with the appropriate software.

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