.cmp

1 claimant 0 primary 1 secondary secondary-only

SWH popularity

From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.

299.3K
total occurrences
106.2K
since 2019 (35.5%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .cmp (277.0K), .Cmp (20.4K), .CMP (1.9K), .CMp (3) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to gerber-image — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.

Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary ✗ Pygments · no claim ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (1)

Languages that list .cmp among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
gerber-imagelinguistsecondary

Wikidata says… (7)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .cmp on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
AUKTOOLS 2000 compressed archive Q105854504
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗
DCS Campaign script Q105849903
file format
file formattext/plainUse as new PL ↗
Intergraph Raster Q28206359
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗

Disambiguation rules (1)

Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a .cmp file actually is.
RulePredictsKindPredicates (truncated)
h/linguist/.cmp/0gerber-imagepredicates[{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^[DGMT][0-9]{2}\\*(?:\\r?\\n|\\r)"]}]

SWH-mined examples (0)

No archived examples for .cmp in our local mirror yet.

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