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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 icon Amiga Forever (Microsoft Windows)

Stuffit icon Stuffit (Microsoft Windows)

StuffIt Deluxe icon StuffIt Deluxe (Microsoft Windows)

StuffIt for Mac icon StuffIt for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

StuffIt Deluxe for Mac icon StuffIt Deluxe for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Software apps that extract y files:

Amiga Forever icon Amiga Forever (Microsoft Windows)

StuffIt Expander icon StuffIt Expander (Microsoft Windows)

Stuffit icon Stuffit (Microsoft Windows)

StuffIt Deluxe icon StuffIt Deluxe (Microsoft Windows)

StuffIt Expander for Mac icon StuffIt Expander for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

StuffIt for Mac icon StuffIt for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

StuffIt Deluxe for Mac icon 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 icon Apple QuickTime (Microsoft Windows)

Microsoft Windows Media Player icon Microsoft Windows Media Player (Microsoft Windows)

Apple QuickTime for Mac icon 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 icon 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 icon 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.