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Currently,
<bgsound>
can handle several different sound format files, in-
cluding
.wav
, the native format for PCs;
.au
, the native format for most
Unix workstations; and MIDI, a universal music-encoding scheme (see
also
Table 5-1
).
Table 5-1. Common multimedia formats and respective
filename extensions
Platform of
origin
Format
Type
Extension
Graphics Interchange Format Image
gif
Any
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Group
Image
jpg, jpeg, jpe
Any
X Bit Map
Image
xbm
Unix
Tagged Image File Format
Image
tif, tiff
Any
PICT
Image
pic, pict
Apple
Rasterfile
Image
ras
Sun
Portable Network Graphics
Image
png
Any
Moving Pictures Expert
Group
Movie
mpg, mpeg
Any
