What is .bin

I tried to Download a file And it comes Out as A .bin What program do i need to Convert that to a program?

No you do not need to convert it. .bin are files used to burn CDs, if you do not have a cd-rw burner you can extract the files using winiso

EDIT: You can find winiso at download.com

Ohh lol How foolish of me. Ty very much

You can use nero as your burner. just go to File-> Burn Image....

i use IsoBuster for extracting CD images...

http://www.topshareware.com/IsoBuster-transfer-5993.htm

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Misc..._20676983.html

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Originally posted here by Faithbeme
I tried to Download a file And it comes Out as A .bin What program do i need to Convert that to a program?

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Wasnt .bin also a mac compression format? (Stuffit?)

I have also found some .bin under *nix systems, and it is possible to find these files in games and such. It is probable though that this is really a disc image.

thanx for the help

Probably not one of them... but:

Cisco also has their IOS images as .bin files.

I've actaully seen a lot of firmware updates and the like in .bin format.

.bin stands for binary

it's originaly a name to show it's not in txt format (old time unix stuff)

it's most often used for images (CD firmware etc)
or executables (linux (java runtime installer for example))

My BIOS updates are .BIN's. A lot of installers (Sun's JDK installer comes to mind) on *NIX are .BIN files. Even some antivirus companies distribute their virus defs with a .BIN extension. .BIN can be pretty much anything. In your case, it's probably a disk image though.

Cheers,
cgkanchi

EDIT: A quick search for .BIN files on my comp yielded 92 results. Not one file was an image :)