Ashton-Tate Applause chart
File type: Document file
A w file is a chart created by Ashton-Tate Applause, also known as Draw Applause.
The file belongs to the obsolete Applause chart and graphics application rather than to a general-purpose document format.
Found 6 different file type records with the same w filename suffix.
File type category:
Document file
Date updated: October 23, 2026
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The w file extension is associated with Applause, a chart and graphics application developed by Ashton-Tate. Applause, also known as Draw Applause, used these files to store charts created in the application.
Ashton-Tate was a US-based software company best known for the dBASE database application. Borland acquired the company, and Applause is now obsolete.
Because Applause is no longer supported, modern software generally does not provide native support for this chart format. The original application is most likely to work in its historical DOS environment or a compatible emulator.
Open the w file with Ashton-Tate Applause, also known as Draw Applause. The program is obsolete, so it may need to be run in a compatible DOS environment or emulator.
Modern chart and document applications generally cannot open this format directly.
If the original Applause software can open the file, use its available export or printing facilities to produce a more widely usable copy.
If the file cannot be opened in Applause, conversion may not be possible without recovering the original software and its supported output methods.
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: June 27, 2025
The W file extension is associated with earlier versions of Firefox and Navigator web browsers from Mozilla and Netscape . The .w file contains file fill form data. Netscape Navigator is obsolete product.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving w files:
Microsoft Windows
Netscape Navigator
File type category:
Source code and script file
Date updated: June 17, 2018
The w file extension is associated with the OpenEdge Architect (Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge) integrated development environment for business applications.
The w file contains source code of an application developed in OpenEdge Architect.
Use OpenEdge Architect (Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge)
Probably cannot be converted to other formats.
Software applications that can open w files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that can edit w files:
Microsoft Windows
Software capable of saving w files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create w files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving w files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Game file
Date updated: October 23, 2026
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
Re-Volt was developed by Acclaim for Microsoft Windows. Its w file stores data used to represent a game world in the racing environment.
The file is one component of the game's data files and is intended to be read by Re-Volt. It is a legacy format associated with the original Windows game and is not generally used outside that software.
Open the file with Re-Volt on Microsoft Windows. The game normally reads its world data files from the appropriate game data location, so a w file will not usually open as a standalone document.
Do not expect a standard text or image application to display its contents.
The Re-Volt w file format is intended for use by Re-Volt rather than as a document format for interchange.
Using the data in another game or format would require tools that support Re-Volt data.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving w files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Game file
Date updated: December 28, 2018
The w file extension is associated with the Train Simulator train simulation computer game developed by Microsoft Games.
The w file contains game world map used to generate 3D world.
You cannot open this file type manually, it is accessed by the game automatically.
These games files cannot be converted to anything else. However, sometimes modding.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving w files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Document file
Date updated: October 16, 2026
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
CWEB is a literate-programming system created by Donald Knuth and adapted for C by Silvio Levy. It combines source code with documentation written for TeX.
CWEB is a version of WEB for documenting C, C++, and Java programs. A CWEB document normally contains interleaved program code and prose. The ctangle program extracts compilable source code, while cweave produces formatted documentation for TeX.
The system was revised to support C++ and ANSI C and was designed for Unix and Unix-like platforms, including Linux. The .w format is considered obsolete, although existing documents can still be processed with compatible CWEB tools.
A .w file is a text-based CWEB source document, so it can be inspected with a plain-text editor on Unix or Linux. This displays the source and documentation but does not format or extract them.
To process the document as intended, use the CWEB ctangle and cweave utilities. They extract the program source and generate TeX documentation, respectively.
There is no general-purpose conversion that preserves all parts of a CWEB document in another document format. Use ctangle to extract its C or C++ source code, or cweave to generate TeX output for typesetting.
The extracted source or generated TeX can then be handled by the corresponding compiler or TeX tools. These operations may not retain the original literate-programming structure.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving w files:
Linux/Unix
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