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Extension   What is it?  (What program do I use?)
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 .SHK   NuFX archive. (Shrinkit)
 .SDK   NuFX with a shrunk disk image. (Shrinkit)
 .EXE   Executioner file [TEXT]. May only work in DOS 3.3.
 .Z     Compressed file (GS Shrinkit or Unix uncompress)
 .TAR   Unix Tape Archive (Unix tar [with -xvf option, GS EXE tar])
 .TXT   [TEXT] An ASCII text file: usually english text.
 .AAF   [TEXT] Apple Archive Format for source code (aaf.unpacker)
 .UU    Unix uuencode file [TEXT] (uudecode or Unix uudecode)
 .GIF   Graphics Interchange Format: Compressed picture.
        (IIGIF for //e, many programs for all other computers)
 .LZH   LZH Archive (IBM/Amiga LZH program)
 .LHA   LHA Archive (IBM/Amiga LZH program)
 .QQ    BLU archive.  (Shrinkit)
 .BSC   BinScii file. [TEXT]  (BinScii)
 .BSQ   BinScii'ed NuFX file. [TEXT]  (BinScii, Shrinkit on the result)
 .BXY   NuFX archive with a Binary II header.  (Shrinkit)
 .BNY   BLU archive. (Shrinkit)
 .BQY   NuFX with BLU header. (Shrinkit)
 .BNX   NuFX with BLU header. (Shrinkit)
 .ACU   NuFX (Shrinkit)
 .HQX   Mac BinHex file. [TEXT] (BinHex on Mac or GSCII+)
 .SIT   Mac StuffIt archive. (Stuffit on Mac or GS ShrinkIt)
        GS Shrinkit will not decode StuffIt Deluxe files.
 .CPT   Compactor Pro archive (Compactor Pro on a Mac only)
 .SEA   Self-extracting archive (Might be Mac, Might be Shrinkit archive)
 .ARC   IBM Archive (GS Shrinkit or DeArc2E or IBM Arc program)
 .ZOO   IBM Zoo Archive (GS Shrinkit??? or IBM ZOO program)
 .ZIP   IBM Zip Archive (UNZIP [GS Shell EXE]or IBM PKUNZIP or Unix unzip)
 .JPEG  Newer graphics format. (only Unix/IBM/etc viewers)
 .JPG   Newer graphics format. (only Unix/IBM/etc viewers)
 .TIFF  Graphics format (GS SHR Convert)

All of these types, except the ones marked [TEXT] are BINARY files.
You can FTP them only if you set 'type binary'.