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Amiga Yabba compressed archive
File type: Archive and compressed file
Files with y file extension are related to the Amiga Yabba compressed file archive format.
Found 5 different file type records with the same y filename suffix.
What is y file?
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: December 27, 2016
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.
How to open y file?
Use Stuffit Expander to open .y compressed archives.
Associated software actions with the y file
Software applications that can open y files:
Amiga Forever (Microsoft Windows)
Stuffit (Microsoft Windows)
StuffIt Deluxe (Microsoft Windows)
StuffIt for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
StuffIt Deluxe for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Software apps that extract y files:
Amiga Forever (Microsoft Windows)
StuffIt Expander (Microsoft Windows)
Stuffit (Microsoft Windows)
StuffIt Deluxe (Microsoft Windows)
StuffIt Expander for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
StuffIt for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
StuffIt Deluxe for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Subsampled RAW YUV bitmap image
File type category:
Bitmap image file
Date updated: October 27, 2024
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.
How to open y file?
Use compatible tools to work with *.y files.
How to convert y file?
Probably can be exported to other formats.
Suggested software to open y file:
Associated software actions with the y file
Apps designed for playing y files:
Apple QuickTime (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Windows Media Player (Microsoft Windows)
Apple QuickTime for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Unix yacc grammar data
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: May 17, 2019
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.
How to open y file?
Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.
How to convert y file?
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Suggested software to open y file:
Associated software actions with the y file
Software applications that handle other tasks involving y files:
Unix (Linux/Unix)
Xcode core yacc program
File type category:
Source code and script file
Date updated: December 7, 2012
The Y file extension is associated with the Xcode integrated development environment that allows programmers to create applications for Apple Mac OS X and Apple iOS operating systems. The .y file stores core yacc program.
Suggested software to open y file:
Associated software actions with the y file
Software applications that handle other tasks involving y files:
Xcode (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Yet Another Compiler-Compiler (YACC) grammar file
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: December 7, 2012
The Y file extension is associated with the Yet Another Compiler-Compiler (YACC).
The computer program yacc is a parser generator developed by Stephen C. Johnson at AT&T for the Unix operating system. It generates a parser (the part of a compiler that tries to make syntactic sense of the source code) based on an analytic grammar written in a notation similar to BNF. Yacc generates the code for the parser in the C programming language.
The .y file stores grammar data.