what is a .bin file? I tried downloading a program with this extension and it didn't work.?

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what is a .bin file? I tried downloading a program with this extension and it didn't work.?

2007-01-21 16:03:06 · 2 answers · asked by aaron b 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers

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more than like you are trying to download something meant for a linux os. Usuallly(but not allways)they are compressed in a .tar.gz format. Sometimes however that uncompressed(most likely a lib package or some weird shell command) go back to the site were you downloaded the file and see if there is a win32 version.

2007-01-21 16:50:52 · answer #1 · answered by meltdown_override 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

A bin file is binary code, the raw machine code of the processor. Thus the file has to exactly match your computer.

2007-01-22 00:07:41 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋