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The most commonly used .tab file type: MapInfo geometry or atribute data file

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.tab file type #1: MapInfo geometry or atribute data file

Files with tab file extension can be found as some sort of geometry or attribute packages from MapInfo GIS and mapping software for Windows.

Further details

The tab file extension is mainly related with MapInfo mapping software product for Microsoft Windows and used for its main default format.

This type of tab files stores both feature geometry and attributes. It is ASCII file that represents a link between all other files from MapInfo data set and also holds information about the type of this data set.

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MapInfo

A mapping application for Microsoft Windows

.tab file type #2: 3D top and bottom movie

A tab file extension is related to the video files stored in Tab and Bottom 3D format.

Further details

The tab file extension is associated with 3D effect used to visualize 3D movies known as Top and Bottom (TAB).

The TAB seems to be shortcut, videos are stored in standard video formats like flv, mp4, mkv etc.

Various Top and Bottom (TAB) videos are available for example on popular video sharing services, like Youtube, Vimeo etc.

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VLC media player

One of the most popular multi-platfom multimeda player

.tab file type #3: Autodesk TR-55 tabular hydrograph

A tab file extension is related to some apps developed by Autodesk. A tab file stores TR-55 tabular hydrograph.

Further details

The tab file extension is associated with some applications, such as AutoCAD Civil, AutoCAD and others developed by Autodesk.

The tab file contains TR-55 tabular hydrograph. File is in binary format.

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Autodesk Civil 3D

Civil 3D design software empowers civil engineers to realize tomorrow’s infrastructure, today.

.tab file type #4: Avalanche Studios game data

A tab file extension is related to Avalanche Engine, a video gaming engine developed by Avalanche Studios.

Further details

The tab file extension is associated with various computer games, like Mad Max and Just Cause based on Avalanche Engine and developed by Avalanche Studios for various platforms.

The tab file stores some kind of information related to Avalanche Studios game archives (arc file extension).

Avalanche Studios games:

  • Just Cause
  • The Hunter
  • Just Cause 2
  • Renegade Ops
  • The Hunter: Primal
  • Rumble City
  • Mad Max
  • Just Cause 3
  • Final Fantasy XV

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Just Cause 2

Action adventure computer game

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Mad Max

A post apocalyptic action adventure computer game

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Just Cause 3

Open world action adventure from Avalanche Studios

.tab file type #5: Tablature for guitar

Files that have a tab extension could potentially be ASCII-based guitar tablatures or notations.

Further details

tab files contain guitar tablature, or tab, a form of musical notation that indicates instrument fingering rather than musical pitches.

It is used mainly for fretted stringed instruments, such as the guitar. In a tab file, six horizontal lines represent the six strings on the guitar. The top line represents the high E string and the bottom line represents the low E string.

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MuseScore

A free cross-platform WYSIWYG music notation software

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Harmony Assistant

A music composition and editing program

Rosegarden

A music composition and editing environment

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TuxGuitar

Open source tablature editor and player

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Melody Assistant

A music composition program

.tab file type #6: Lotus Notes full text index

A tab file extension is related to the Lotus Notes software from IBM. A tab file contains full text index.

Further details

The tab file extension is associated with Lotus Notes. The tab file contains full text index.

An index file is helpful if records are large: the keys and indexes can be extracted, sorted, and the original file accessed faster than the original file could be rearranged into sorted order. Also if the file needs to be accessed by different keys at the same time, it cannot be sorted by all of them. So a index file is maintained for each different key.

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IBM Notes (Lotus Notes)

A multi-user client-server cross-platform application runtime environment for Lotus Domino/Notes suite

.tab file type #7: Microsoft SQL table script

Files with tab file extension are related to the Microsoft SQL table script files.

Further details

The tab file extension is associated with Microsoft SQL Server, a relational database management system for Microsoft Windows Server operating system.

The tab file stores table script written for Microsoft SQL Server.

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Microsoft Visual Studio

IDE for creating programs, or websites and web applications

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Microsoft SQL Server

Set of relation database tools for making and organization of SQL databases

.tab file type #8: Tab separated value

Files with tab file extension can often be also found as specially formatted tab separated files, commonly used for data exchange.

Further details

The tab file extension is also related to a specially formatted text format - tab separated value format.

Tab separated file is a very simple textual data format which allows tabular data to be exchanged between applications that use different internal data formats. The more common suffix for this format is tsv extension.

Some old spreadsheet programs (Lotus 1-2-3 etc.) in the past used the very same format for their file types. Also for example used as export format for data output from some molecular chemistry programs, like old Insight II.

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NotePad++ text editor

A free source code and text editor for Windows

Insight II

A powerful molecular modeling environment

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Lotus 1-2-3

Old spreadsheet program from IBM

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Microsoft Access

A relational database management system from Microsoft Office

.tab file type #9: ThinBASIC Adventure Builder adventure data file

The tab file extension is related to the ThinBASIC Adventure Builder software.

Further details

The tab file extension is associated with the ThinBASIC Adventure Builder an interactive fiction and text adventure maker for Microsoft Windows operating system.

The tab file contains adventure data for Adventure Builder.

We are sorry, there is currently no software link record to open this tab file type.

.tab file type #10: Typinator settings

A tab file extension is related to the Typinator program and used for its settings.

Further details

The tab file extension is associated with the Typinator, a typing shortcut software for Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Ergonis Software.

The tab file contains settings from Typinator program.

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Typinator

A text editing software for OS X

.tab file type #11: UFO: Enemy Unknown game data

Files with tab file suffix are associated with the UFO: Enemy Unknown game data format.

Further details

The tab file extension related to the UFO: Enemy Unknown, a turn-based strategic computer game for MS-DOS and Amiga computers, developed by Microprose.

The tab file stores terrain data for UFO: Enemy Unknown.

There is original version of UFO: Enemy Unknown running on Microsoft Windows via DOSBox available to purchase on Steam distribution service.

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X-COM: UFO Defense (UFO: Enemy Unknown)

Turn-based strategic computer game

.tab file type #12: WAsP observed wind climate

A tab file extension is related to the WAsP observed wind climate format.

Further details

The tab file extension is associated with the WAsP. The observed wind climate file contains the frequencies of occurrence of the wind in a number of sectors (the wind rose) and wind speed bins.

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WAsP

A wind climate, resource and power production prediction software

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