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Details for file extension .BIF are on this page. Because there is no central registry for file extensions and their associated programs there may be multiple entries on this page. And, because there are many (some say over a million) such associations not all may be listed here.

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Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
BioWare Infinity Engine Archive of Resources		BioWare Corp.
Specific Notes [What's This?]
This is a simple archive format, used both to simplify organization of the files, as well as to group together entire areas. Some BIF files are grouped together because of common functionality; for instance, all the .DLG files are gathered together into a single BIF file in Planescape: Torment. Other BIF files, such as AR4800.BIF represent the entirety of an area's terrain (i.e. not its containers, actors, or items). The file is often indexed by .KEY file. The program WinBiff is a tool to extract data from these files. This file format is used by many different games. It sometimes comes with a .BIFF file extension. Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
	Archive	BIFF File Format WinBiff
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
Various programs use this extension; too many to list individually. Take clues from the location of the file as a possible pointer to exactly which program is producing the file. The file's date and time can also help if you know which programs you were running when the file was written.
This is record 1554 last modified on 2005-05-02 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Baldur's Gate Archive
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		Dragon UnPACKer
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 1550 last modified on 2007-07-21 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Binary Information File
Specific Notes [What's This?]
Text file describing an image. Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
	Text	None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
Note: This entry has not yet been verified by FILExt. It was submitted to the list and appeared to be accurate; however, no verification links have so far been found on the Internet. Please use this association data with that in mind.
This is record 1551 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
BioWare Aurora Engine Resource File		BioWare Corp.
Specific Notes [What's This?]
BioWare's games and tools make use of a very large number of files that are packed into a group of files having the .bif extension. The contents of the .bif files are described by one or more files having the .key extension. Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
Various programs use this extension; too many to list individually. Take clues from the location of the file as a possible pointer to exactly which program is producing the file. The file's date and time can also help if you know which programs you were running when the file was written.
This is record 24081 last modified on 2007-08-12 and created on 2007-08-12.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
byLight Graphic
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
image/x-biff image/biff	Graphic	XnView
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
GraphicsConverterPro.bif
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 17490 last modified on 2004-10-18 and created on 2004-10-18.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
GroupWise Initialization File		Novell, Inc.
Specific Notes [What's This?]
GroupWise is collaboration and productivity software. Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 1552 last modified on 2007-07-18 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Image Capture Board Binary Black & White Image
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 1553 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
MagicISO Boot Information File		MagicISO Inc.
Specific Notes [What's This?]
Extracted boot information from a bootable CD/DVD. MagicISO is an ISO CD/DVD image file creating/editing/converting tool. It can directly edit the CD/DVD image file and extract files and folders from it, as well as directly make ISO files from your CD/DVD-ROM or hard disk. At the same time, you can maintain the ISO bootable information, thus creating your own bootable CD/DVDs. Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 17873 last modified on 2005-02-09 and created on 2005-02-09.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Planescape: Torment Archive
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		Dragon UnPACKer
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 1555 last modified on 2007-07-21 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
TomTom General Info		TomTom International BV
Specific Notes [What's This?]
TomTom offers two types of products: navigation devices and navigation software for installation on mobile devices. The navigation devices and portable devices with installed software are referred to as units. Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		Wikipedia TomTom Page
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
Hex: 5B 54 6F 6D 54 6F 6D ASCII: [TomTom
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 26697 last modified on 2009-03-11 and created on 2009-03-11.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
UltraISO Boot Information File		EZB Systems, Inc.
Specific Notes [What's This?]
Extracted boot information from a bootable CD/DVD. UltraISO is an ISO CD/DVD image file creating/editing/converting tool. It can directly edit the CD/DVD image file and extract files and folders from it, as well as directly make ISO files from your CD/DVD-ROM or hard disk. At the same time, you can maintain the ISO bootable information, thus creating your own bootable CD/DVDs. Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 17254 last modified on 2004-08-02 and created on 2004-08-02.

Extension: BIF
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
WordPerfect Binary Information File		Corel Corporation
Specific Notes [What's This?]
WordPerfect for Windows 6.x used a binary information file (BIF) for storing information. The BIF file was prone to becoming corrupted, and was less capable than the Windows 95 Registry, so starting with WordPerfect for Windows 7 under Win 95, WordPerfect itself no longer used the BIF file. Instead, it stored settings information in the Windows Registry. Later versions of PerfectScript still included commands to write to and read from a BIF file. Recommended: Find BIF errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 25274 last modified on 2008-07-04 and created on 2008-07-04.

System Info for File Extension .BIF

FILExt has been given permission to display the file extension database produced by the Associate This! program. Some of that data has already been included into the main FILExt database; but, not all. Those entries which have not yet been incorporated are shown below in the hope that they will be of some use. Data collected by FILExt on registered file extensions from user systems is also in the display. Be aware this is raw data which may require further research on your part to fully understand. In particular, look at the Program ID. Often a company will put the program's name into the short ID that Windows uses to open registered file extensions. If that's not the case, look at the complete path to the EXE file. Often, programs will install themselves into directories that give either the program or company name. The program name itself may also be used as the EXE file name. These listings are particularly important since they represent listings that are in actual use by users who have sumbitted data to FILExt and therefore these listings can point you to the most likely candidate should there be multiple entries in the FILExt main database.

Program Name and MIME Type Info for File Extension .BIF

FILExt has been given permission to display a Program Name/MIME type database collected by Anthony R. Nemmer. Some of that data has already been included into the main FILExt database; but, not all. Those entries which have not yet been incorporated are shown below in the hope that they will be of some use. Be aware this is raw data which may require further research on your part to fully understand. MIME type listings often contain the name of a program or, at a minimum, a type of file as the leading text in the MIME type.

General Info

• If the extension you are looking for is of the form .??_ the file is likely a compressed file and part of an install routine. When the install program runs it will expand the file and replace the underscore with the proper letter for the file type.
• If the file is sent as an audio file with any three-character extension it may be a dictation file where the extension is the dictator's initials; playable by BCB Voice Systems software (see ??? extension). The file could likewise be a dictation file in TrueSpeech format. Use Windows Sound Recorder and/or Media Player to play these back.
• If the extension you are looking for has a number at the end or is only a number and there were no results consider entering the same extension format using zero or one as some programs produce numbered split files but when the split can be extensive (e.g., .000-.999) only the first entry is in the database.

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