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The most commonly used .y file type: Amiga Yabba compressed archive

What is y file? Understanding and opening y files

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.y file type #1: Amiga Yabba compressed archive

Files with y file extension are related to the Amiga Yabba compressed file archive format.

Further details

The y file extension is associated with the Amiga Yabba compressed file archive format used by AmigaOS operating system for Amiga computers developed by Commodore.

The y file stores compressed archive.

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Amiga Forever

Amiga emulator

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StuffIt Expander for Mac

A Mac version of the popular decompression utility

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StuffIt Expander

A free decompression utility with good file format support

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Stuffit

A popular file archiving utility

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StuffIt for Mac

Mac version of the popular utility

.y file type #2: Subsampled RAW YUV bitmap image

A y file extension is related to the Subsampled RAW YUV bitmap image format.

Further details

The y file extension is associated with the Stanford MPEG codec.

The y file stores a part of split Subsampled RAW YUV bitmap image file (PPM file extension).

The y file is viewable in Apple QuickTime for Windows and Mac, or in Windows Media Player with YUV Genius codec.

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Apple QuickTime for Mac

As multimedia framework for Mac OS X

.y file type #3: Unix yacc grammar data

A y file extension is related to the Unix yacc grammar data format used by Unix-based operating systems.

Further details

The y file extension is associated with the UNIX multi-user and multi-tasking operating system for various hardware platforms, also used as the base of other systems, like Mac OS X (macOS), Linux, Solaris etc.

The y file stores yacc grammar data.

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Unix

A multi-tasking operating system for various platforms

What file extension actually is?

Simply put, file extensions are the characters after the dot in the computer file name, so for example document-name.pdf has file extension „pdf“. This helps Windows to identify which program should be used to open the file.

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