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CUR File Format

Short Name	CUR
Long Name	Microsoft Windows Cursor
Typical File Extensions	.cur
Contains	Monochrome Cursor

This is one format that cursors (the mouse pointer design) can be stored in, under Microsoft Windows 3.x and later versions of Windows. In Windows 95, NT and later, this format has been largely superseded by the ANI format which allows animated and color cursor designs.

The CUR format also allows transparency so that cursors do not have to appear rectangular when displayed on screen.

CUR files are not compressed. However, as the images that they contain are usually quite small, compression is not really needed anyway.

Related Pages on this site:

Microsoft Windows Animated Cursor (File Format)

Related Software:

Able Graphic Manager
Able Graphic Manager is a program that enables you to easily view, print and convert graphic files in normal (file by file) and batch (many files at a time) modes. Input formats include Drawing Interchange Format (DXF), TIFF, JPEG, BMP, RLE, PNG, WMF, EMF, TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX, PXM, PPM, PGM, PBM and ICO, CUR. Output formats include JPEG, TIFF, PCX, PNG, BMP, Targa, PXM, PPM, PGM and PBM.

Related Web Sites:

DaubNET: File Formats Collection: CUR
Unofficial technical/programming information about this file format.

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