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Sources

2013-01-23T10:56:58Z

Michael: added a link

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If you're looking for places to pull either file format information, or to verify stuff you've found, or to go that extra mile to track down variations, here's some similar endeavors and items.

==List of Places Keeping Track of Formats==

* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Category:File_Formats Forensics Wiki]
* http://archivematica.org/preservation
* http://www.fileformat.info/
* http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
* http://wotsit.org/ - their download page is broken. need to ping webmaster about that.
* Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats_%28alphabetical%29
** Also [[wikipedia:Template:Infobox file format]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&limit=500&target=Template%3AInfobox+file+format&namespace=0 pages using this template])
* http://unarchiver.c3.cx/formats
* [[Sources/PRONOM|The PRONOM format registry]].
* http://wiki.multimedia.cx/
* http://archive.org/download/file-format-encyclopedia/fileformat.zip/
* http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/descriptions.shtml
* http://www.udfr.org/, see also http://gdfr.info/.
* http://gitorious.org/re-lab Tools & specs from re-lab- graphics formats, and office formats
* http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/documents/AudioFormats/index.html - Documentation, details, specs, and samples for a handful of audio formats
* http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/Game_File_Format_Central This wiki is the home of the most game (archive) file format knowledge in the world.
* http://rewiki.regengedanken.de has some more game related reverse engineering
* http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html Home to TrID, which can identify a vast number of file formats using an updateable database
* http://mark0.net/soft-trid-deflist.html Online searchable version of the TrID database file
* http://file-extension.net/seeker/ Metasearch engine for file extensions - Find info about unknown file extensions or filetypes
* http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page - the Videogame Music Preservation Foundation Wiki has information on a number of formats used to play back videogame music
* http://hackipedia.org/File%20formats/ - loads of info on various formats here
* http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_formats - detailed information on eBook formats.
* http://mediapedia.nla.gov.au/ - "The Mediapedia resource is intended to enable the identification of various physical media carrier types for assisting with collection planning, assessment, documentation, infrastructure and preservation planning for the content they hold. These could include media across various genres such as cine, video, photo, audio, data, paper carriers, microfilm, etc."
* http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/TR/Formats - Small list of formats with detailed descriptions of some known access/preservation problems.
* [http://registry.dcc.ac.uk:8080/RegistryWeb/Registry/ CASPAR/DCC Representation Information Repository]
* [http://theswo.sourceforge.net/ The Software Ontology]
* [http://keep-totem.co.uk/ KEEP Totem] also covers software, hardware etc.
* [http://cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php/Main_Page Dead Media Archives]
* [http://www.forensicinnovations.com/formats.html The >4000 formats known to FI Tools], [http://www.forensicinnovations.com/formats-ext1.html by extension], [http://www.forensicinnovations.com/formats-mime.html by MIME type]
* [http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/mimetypes.py#l402 Python sourcecode for mimetypes module]
* /etc/mimetypes on *nix systems defines a number of file formats and [[mimetypes]]
* http://www.iasa-web.org/tc04/key-digital-principles - Recommended Audio formats by Audiovisual Archives and Institutions
* http://www.gpsbabel.org/capabilities.html - List of formats used by GPS devices
* http://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/en/us/programs/osp/office-file-formats/default.aspx Microsoft's Open Document Specifications
* http://mamedev.org/source/src/lib/formats/index.html http://mamedev.org/source/src/mess/formats/index.html - format handlers for disk images, cassette images, and memory snapshots/quickloads in the MESS source code
* http://minidisc.org alot of minidisc related info
* http://cool.conservation-us.org/ Conservation Online
* http://filext.com/ File Extensions with Mime types
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats_(alphabetical) Wikipedia list of file formats (alphabetical)
* http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/formats.html The C64 file formats list
* http://3dbrew.org/wiki/Category:File_formats Nintendo 3DS file formats
* http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html IANA MIME Media Types - lots of useful info here and often quite detailed as well
* http://gitorious.org/msoscheme msoscheme is a project that creates a machine readable description of the binary file formats of Microsoft Office
* http://www.schnarff.com/file-formats/index.html

==Emulation==

* http://nonmess.retrogames.com/ - Emulator listing for various computer formats, including MESS and single-machine emulators.
* [http://emuframework.sourceforge.net/ The Emulation Framework] is software developed by the international KEEP project, co-funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme.

==Books==

* [http://www.amazon.com/Compressed-Image-File-Formats-JPEG/dp/0201604434/ Compressed Image File Formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, XBM, BMP] by John Miano (1999)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Graphics-File-Formats-Reference/dp/1565921615/ Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats: The Complete Reference on CD-ROM with Links to Internet Resources] by James D. Murray and William VanRyper (1996) '''Copy Acquired!''' Text also online at [http://www.fileformat.info/resource/book/1565921615/index.htm FileFormat.Info] and http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/graphics/book.htm . Information from the book on individual formats can be found from the FileFormat.Info's File Format Cloud at http://www.fileformat.info/format/cloud.htm or the format list at http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/graphics/formats.htm
* The CD-ROM for the above book is located [http://archive.org/details/EncyclopediaOfGraphicsFileFormatsCompanionCd-rom here].
* [http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-File-Formats-David-Kay/dp/0070340250/ Graphics File Formats] by David C. Kay and John R. Levine (1994)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-File-Formats-Reference-Guide/dp/0133034054/ Graphics File Formats: Reference and Guide] by C. Wayne Brown, Barry J. Shepherd (1994)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Formats-Popular-Personal-Computer-Software/dp/0471836710/ File Formats for Popular Personal Computer Software: A Programmer's Reference (Self-teaching Guides)] by Jeff Walden (1986) '''Copy Acquired!'''
* [http://www.amazon.com/File-Formats-Internet-Guide-Users/dp/0871114410 File Formats on the Internet: A Guide for PC Users] by Allison B. Zhang (1996) '''Copy Acquired!'''
* [http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-File-Formats-Programmers-Reference/dp/0201488353/ 3D Graphics File Formats: A Programmer's Reference] by Keith Rule (1996)
* [http://www.amazon.com/More-File-Formats-Popular-Software/dp/0471850772/ More File Formats for Popular PC Software: A Programmer's Reference] by Jeff Walden (1987) '''Copy Acquired!'''
* [http://www.amazon.com/Lotus-File-Formats-1-2-3-Symphony/dp/0201168243/ Lotus File Formats for 1-2-3 Symphony & Jazz: File Structure Descriptions for Developers] from Lotus, Inc. (1986)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Windows-File-Formats-Swan/dp/0672303388/ Inside Windows File Formats] by Tom Swan (Nov 1993)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Internet-File-Formats-Complete-Receiving/dp/188357756X/ Internet File Formats: Your Complete Resource for Sending, Receiving, and Using Internet Files] by Tim Kientzle (Oct 15, 1995)
* [http://www.amazon.com/File-Formats-Popular-PC-Software/dp/0471528064/ File Formats for Popular PC Software] by Jeff Walden (Nov 1992)
* [http://www.amazon.com/File-Formats-Conversions-Book-Developers/dp/155755059X/ PC File Formats and Conversions/Book and Disk (Developers Series)] by Ralf Kussmann (Mar 1990)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Undocumented-Formats-Working-Inside/dp/0879304375/ Windows Undocumented File Formats; Working Inside 16- and 32- bit Windows] by Pete Davis (Jan 23, 1997)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-File-Formats-Complete-Reference/dp/0070375321/ Graphics File Formats: The Complete Reference] by John R. Levine and David C. Kay (May 1992)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Using-Pcx-Graphics-Files-Programmers/dp/0879304324/ Using Pcx Graphics Files: The Programmer's Definitive Guide to Pcx File Formats] by Roger T. Stevens (Apr 1, 1996)
* [http://www.amazon.com/File-Formats-Handbook-Gunter-Born/dp/1850321175/ The File Formats Handbook] by Gunter Born (Sep 1995)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Window-System-Formats-Application-Conventions/dp/1872630154/ X Window System File Formats and Application Conventions (X11R4)] by The Open Group (Jul 17, 1991)
* [http://www.iasa-web.org/audio-preservation-tc04 Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects] by IASA (2009)

==Other Useful Materials and Services==

* http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/ National Software Reference Library (see also http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/life-saving-the-national-software-reference-library/)
* http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/software/fido Format Identification for Digital Objects
* https://github.com/usnationalarchives/File-Analyzer File Analyzer
* http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=products&product=uniconvertor UniConvertor is a universal vector graphics translator. It is a command line tool which uses sK1 object model to convert one format to another
* http://www.textfiles.com/programming/FORMATS/
* http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SPR/Digital+Preservation+Tools Wiki list of digital preservation tool lists
* http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/REQ/Digital+Preservation+and+Data+Curation+Requirements+and+Solutions Digital Preservation and Data Curation Requirements and Solutions. Not classified by formats, but by datasets, issues and solutions.
* http://fileformats.wordpress.com/ - The File Formats Blog
* http://www.archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive - The Internet Archive has over 1,500 CD-ROMs loaded with shareware, and with that comes converters, documentation and other vital works related to file formats.
* [http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SPR/Crowd+sourced+Representation+Information+for+Supporting+Preservation+(cRIsp) Crowd sourced Representation Information for Supporting Preservation (cRIsp)]
* [http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/ National Software Reference Library]
* [http://mediatypes.appspot.com/ Linked Data URIs for MIME Types]
* http://darwinsys.com/file/ UNIX file(1) format guessing utility
* http://www.filesignatures.net/ Online database of file signatures (magic numbers)
* http://www.garykessler.net/library/file_sigs.html List of file signatures (magic numbers)
* [http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ Data Formats from Paul Bourke] Useful information on older formats. Categories include Geometric (e.g., 3-D), Audio, and Image.
* [http://www.martinreddy.net/gfx/ Graphics File Formats page from Martin Reddy] Useful information on older formats. Categories are: 2-D and 3-D, with supplementary resources.
* [http://samples.multimedia.cx/ LibAV Sample Files collection, over 50GB]
* http://www.corel.com/content/pdf/wpx4/corel-wordperfect-office-X4-reviewers-guide.pdf Corel WordPerfect Office Reviewers Guide, Appendix A gives useful overview of old Office formats + their typical file extensions.
* http://documentation.statsoft.com/STATISTICAHelp.aspx?path=common/CommonMenus/CompatibleDocumentTypes Some info on formats of / compatible with Statsoft Statistica
* http://web-beta.archive.org/web/20100210224635/http://medlem.spray.se/converters Loads of DOS / Windows conversion programs - this appears to be the most recent grab held by the Internet Archive

Compression

2013-01-23T10:50:06Z

Michael: /* Specific formats/programs */ added 7z

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== Stream compression formats ==

A stream format takes a stream of bytes, and outputs a different, hopefully smaller, stream of bytes. These compression formats are often used internally in other data structures to compress data, as well as in network protocols, such as http. Used stand-alone, a stream compression format does not offer archiving capability, however in the UNIX doctrine, an archiver like [[tar]] can be combined with an archive format to produce a proper compressed archive.

== Compression schemes used in multiple formats ==

* [[Huffman encoding]]
* [[Lempel-Zev]]
* [[LZW]]

== Specific formats/programs ==

* [[7z]]
* [[9CDR]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
* [[BARF]] (.x, .x??)
* [[bzip2]] (.bz2)
* [[CCITT Group 4]]
* [[CrLZH]] (.?y?)
* [[CRN]] (.crn) - compressed text files used for PC-Write manual
* [[Crunch]] (.?z?)
* [[DiskDoubler]]
* [[DUPA]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
* [[Error Code Modeler]] (.ecm)
* [[File Imploder]] (Amiga) (.imp)
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (Unix) (.F)
* [[gzip]] (.gz)
* [[JCalG1]] (.jc, Commodore Amiga)
* [[LZIP]] (.lz)
* [[LZMA]] (.lzma)
* [[LZOP]] (.lzop)
* [[pack]] (.z)
* [[RK]] (WinRK)
* [[Softdisk Text Compressor]] (.ctx)
* [[Squash (RISC OS)|Squash]] - single file compression on RISC OS
* [[Squeeze|Squeeze/SQ]] (.?q?)
* [[XZ]] (.xz)

== See also ==

* [[Archiving]] (for formats that place multiple files together in one file, with or without compression)

CHM

2012-11-15T23:19:00Z

Michael: created page. still needs catagory and breadcrumbs

[[CHM]] (Compiled HTML Help) is a Microsoft format for help files. While it is proprietary, it has been reverse engineered, and many software applications can read it.

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help Wikipedia article]

MS-DOS

2012-11-15T23:14:53Z

Michael: added link to FreeDOS and Windows ME is the last version to have DOS under the hood.

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'''MS-DOS''' refers to "Microsoft DOS", the Microsoft-developed variant of DOS. Because of the prominence of Microsoft in computer industry, it is frequently the case that people refer to "DOS" when they mean MS-DOS, although there have in fact been a number of non-Microsoft operating systems also called DOS (such as Apple II DOS). PC-DOS refers to the specific variety of MS-DOS that was licensed by Microsoft to IBM for use on its personal computers, while MS-DOS is the generic version that ran on a wide variety of "PC clones" or "compatibles". Microsoft originally got MS-DOS from another company called Seattle Computer Products which had created its predecessor as an imitation of CP/M. The first version of MS-DOS didn't even support subdirectories, but this was added in version 2.0. Windows runs on a base of MS-DOS, something that was clearly visible in early versions up to 3.11 (where you had to first boot DOS and then run Windows as a separate program), but obscured in later versions (up to and including Windows ME) which boot directly into Windows, but DOS is still there under the hood.

Of particular interest to DOS users is [[FreeDOS]], which reimplements and extends MS-DOS and other DOSs.

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS Wikipedia entry on MS-DOS]
* [http://www.computerhope.com/history/dos.htm MS-DOS Release Timeline] from computerhope.com
* [http://www.pcxt-micro.com/history.html A short history of MS-DOS]
* [http://www.thezac.com/MicrosoftHistory/03_ms-dos1x-3x.html The History and Future of Microsoft Operating Systems]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_DOS_operating_systems Timeline of DOS Operating Systems] from Wikipedia

Format validation and analysis software

2012-11-08T13:42:30Z

Michael: hash, checksums and signatures are relevant as well.

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This is a list of tools and applications for validating formats and extracting metadata from files.

* http://aperture.sourceforge.net/ Aperture
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwfmetaedit BWF MetaEdit
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/droid/ DROID
* http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool ExifTool
* http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/software/fido FIDO
* http://linux.die.net/man/1/file file
* https://code.google.com/p/fits/ FITS
* http://markzware.com/flightcheck FlightCheck
* http://www.imagemagick.org/script/identify.php ImageMagick
* https://sourceforge.net/projects/jhove/ JHOVE
* http://www.jhove2.org JHOVE2
* http://mp3-validator.apponic.com/ MP3 Validator
* http://www.natlib.govt.nz/services/get-advice/digital-libraries/metadata-extraction-tool NLNZ Metadata Extraction Tool
* http://tika.apache.org/ Tika

As well, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum checksums], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function hash] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature signature] functions can be used to verify is file has changed. Though in some cases they require that a hash be generated from a known good version of the file before it can be used to confirm that the file has not changed.

Talk:Emulation Software

2012-11-06T17:15:16Z

Michael: afd

What's the difference between [[Virtualization Software]] and [[Emulation_Software|emulators]]? [[User:Michael|Michael]] ([[User talk:Michael|talk]]) 17:15, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Virtualization Software

2012-11-06T17:15:11Z

Michael: fasd

What's the difference between [[Virtualization Software]] and [[Emulation_Software|emulators]]? [[User:Michael|Michael]] ([[User talk:Michael|talk]]) 17:15, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

UAE

2012-11-06T17:13:21Z

Michael: wikilinked emulator rather than external linked

'''UAE''' is a free Amiga [[Emulation_Software|emulator]] written in C.

== Emulated hardware ==

* A 68000/010/020/040 CPU, optionally a 68881 FPU
* OCS, ECS and AGA Graphics Chipset (including sprite-playfield collisions)
* Up to 2MB Chip RAM and up to 8MB Fast RAM, or 8MB Chip RAM without Fast RAM
* Up to 64MB Zorro III Fast RAM, independent of Chip RAM setting (68020+ only)
* Up to 1MB Slow RAM, for extended compatibility with problem software
* Up to 8MB of graphics card memory, usable by software that supports Picasso 96 compatible graphics cards
* 4 x 3.5" floppy disk drives (DF0:, DF1:, DF2: and DF3:). It's not possible to read Amiga disks, so these are emulated with disk files.
* A hard-disk: either a harddisk image file or part of the native filesystem
* Joystick support (with option of mapping joystick to numeric keypad)
* Mouse support
* Ability to run in various screen modes (for better display quality or better speed)
* Full stereo sound support, consisting of 4 x 8bit channels
* Simple parallel and serial port support. Note: the parallel port is not really implemented. Though it's sufficient for printing.
* State-saving. You can save the state of your emulated Amiga and continue later on.

== Resources ==

* [http://www.amigaemulator.org/ Website]
* [http://www.amigaemulator.org/useful Useful software]

Wine

2012-11-06T17:09:44Z

Michael: more work

'''Wine''' is a Free (GNU LGPL) compatibility layer for MS Windows software. It runs on POSIX systems, such as Linux, BSD and Mac OSX. It is not strictly an [[Virtualization_Software|emulator]], as it actually implements Windows API calls.

See also [[ReactOS]] with which Wine shares many libraries.

== Resources ==
* [http://winehq.org/ Wine website]
* [http://appdb.winehq.org/ Application database]

Wine

2012-11-06T17:07:40Z

Michael: created page.

'''Wine''' is a compatibility layer for MS Windows software. It runs on POSIX systems, such as Linux, BSD and Mac OSX. It is not strictly an emulator, as it actually implements Windows API calls.

See also [[ReactOS]] with which Wine shares many libraries.

[http://winehq.org/ Wine website]

ReactOS

2012-11-06T17:06:03Z

Michael: added link to Wine

'''ReactOS''' is a Free implementation of MS Windows and is intended to be binary compatible at both the user level and driver level. See also [[Wine]], with which it shares many libraries.

* [http://www.reactos.org/ ReactOS website]

Operating Systems

2012-11-06T17:03:46Z

Michael: /* Nonproprietary OSs emulating proprietary ones */ added Wine link next to ReactOS

'''Operating Systems''' are what make computers do what they do, managing their resources and overseeing input, output, and data storage and retrieval. They form a platform on which applications software (programs, apps, programming languages, etc.) runs. Operating systems (or OSs) can be proprietary or free, closed or open source, and specific to one manufacturer's hardware or portable between multiple hardware platforms.

A category of particular interest to fans of nonproprietary software are those OSs that are developed independently of a closed proprietary system and allow the use of software originally developed for those systems to run without them. Ideally as well as being binary compatible at the user level, they are also driver compatible (allowing the use of older hardware as well).

== Proprietary OSs ==

=== Mainframe ===

* IBM System/360
* Multics
* TOPS-10
* TOPS-20

=== Minicomputer ===

* Unix
* VAX/VMS

=== Personal computer ===

* Apple II DOS
** ProDOS
* MacOS
** OS X
* OS/2
* PC-DOS / MS-DOS
* Windows
** Windows NT
** Windows 2000
** Windows XP
** Windows Vista
** Windows 7
** Windows 8

=== Mobile device ===

* Android
* iOS
* Windows Mobile

== Free OSs ==

* FreeBSD
* Linux

=== Nonproprietary OSs emulating proprietary ones ===
(see also [[Emulation Software]])

* [[FreeDOS]] - DOS
* [[ReactOS]] - MS Windows - see also [[Wine]]
* [[Haiku]] - BeOS

XCF

2012-11-05T17:08:00Z

Michael: added link to info about XCF on GIMP website

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| XCF
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'''XCF''' is the native file format for GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). It supports all the possible information about an image, including layers and transparency, except for undo information[http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-images-out.html].

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCF_%28file_format%29 The Wikipedia article] says that the reference documentation is the source code for GIMP itself.

* [http://www.gimp.org GIMP website]

XCF

2012-11-05T13:25:41Z

Michael: created page.

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| XCF
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'''XCF''' is the native file format for GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). It supports layers and many other features.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCF_%28file_format%29 The Wikipedia article] says that the reference documentation is the source code for GIMP itself.

* [http://www.gimp.org GIMP website]

Text-based data

2012-11-05T01:55:54Z

Michael: added reStructuredText and Markdown and Textile (or did I misunderstand the point of the page?)

{|
|[[File Formats]]
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|[[Electronic File Formats]]
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|Text-based data
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* [[Attribute-Relation File Format]]
* [[Column Delimited]]
* [[CSV]] (Comma Separated Values; comma-delimited)
* [[FidoNet nodelists]]
* [[Org-mode]]
* [[Markdown]]
* [[reStructuredText]]
* [[Softdisk Publishing UDF files]]
* [[Tab delimited]]
* [[Text Encoding Initiative]]
* [[Textile]]

== See Also ==
* [[TXT]]
* Some text-based formats are listed in [[Document]] or [[Serialization]]

Wiki markup

2012-11-05T01:40:13Z

Michael: there aren't just one.

There are loads of types of Wiki markups, including [http://www.wikicreole.org/ Wiki Creole], what MediaWiki uses, etc.

WP2

2012-11-05T01:39:01Z

Michael: created page.

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WP2 is used by [http://math.exeter.edu/rparris/winplot.html WinPlot].

Fonts

2012-11-05T01:36:33Z

Michael: added WOFF

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|Fonts
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Fonts describe how text looks (as opposed to how the characters are represented in text, which is the area of [[Character Encoding]]s). There are a number of formats that describe fonts for computers.

* [[Acorn Font]]
* [[TTF|TrueType]]
* [[OpenType]]
* [[WOFF]]
See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Font_formats Wikipedia] for more.

Talk:Web

2012-11-05T01:36:16Z

Michael: .

I suggest that this page be used as a sort of virtual search, and that the actual formats be included in other categorises by default. [[HTML]] is a [[document]] format, [[WOFF]] is a [[fonts|font]] format, etc. [[User:Michael|Michael]] ([[User talk:Michael|talk]]) 01:36, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Scientific Data formats

2012-11-05T01:33:34Z

Michael: /* Mathematical */ added WP2

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== General ==
* [[cdf]] (Common Data Format)
* [[EAS3]] (binary file format for structured data)
* [[hdf]] (Hierarchical Data Format, from NASA)
* [[NetCDF]] (Network Common Data Format)
* [[SDF]] (Simple Data Format, a platform-independent, precision-preserving binary data I/O format capable of handling large, multi-dimensional arrays)
* [[SDXF]] (Structured Data Exchange Format)
* [[Silo]] (a storage format for visualization developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)* [[XDF]] (eXtensible Data Format)
* [[XSIL]] (Extensible Scientific Interchange Language)

== Astronomical and Space ==
* [[FITS]] (Flexible Image Transport System)
* [[PDS/ODL]] (Planetary Data System)

== Biological ==

* [[AB1]] (Chromatogram files used by DNA sequencing instruments from Applied Biosystems)
* [[ACE]] (Sequence assembly format)
* [[BAM]] (Binary compressed SAM format)
* [[BED]] (Browser extensible display format describing genes and other features of DNA sequences)
* [[CAF]] (Common Assembly Format for sequence assembly)
* [[EMBL]] (Flatfile format used by the EMBL for nucleotide and peptide sequences)
* [[FASTA and FASTQ]] (File format for sequence data, FASTQ with quality).
* [[GenBank]] (Flatfile format used by NCBI for nucleotide and peptide sequences)
* [[GFF]] (General feature format for describing genes and other features of DNA, RNA and protein sequences)
* [[GTF]] (Gene transfer format holds information about gene structure)
* [[NEXUS]] (Encodes mixed information about genetic sequence data in a block structured format)
* [[PDB]] (Structures of biomolecules deposited in Protein Data Bank)
* [[PHD]] (Output from the basecalling software Phred)
* [[SAM]] (Sequence Alignment/Map format)
* [[SCF]] (Staden chromatogram files used to store data from DNA sequencing)
* [[SBML]] (Systems Biology Markup Language used to store biochemical network computational models)
* [[Stockholm]] (Representing multiple sequence alignments)
* [[Swiss-Prot]] (Flatfile format used for protein sequences from the Swiss-Prot database)
* [[VCF]] (Variant Call Format)

== Biomedical signals (time series) ==

* [[ACQ]] (AcqKnowledge)
* [[BCI2000]] (The BCI2000 project)
* [[BDF]] (BioSemi data format0
* [[BKR]] (EEG data format)
* [[CFWB]] (Chart Data File Format)
* [[ DICOM-Waveform]] (An extension of Dicom for storing waveform data)
* [[ecgML]] (A markup language for electrocardiogram data acquisition and analysis)
* [[EDF/EDF+]] (European Data Format)
* [[FEF]] (File Exchange Format for Vital signs, CEN TS 14271)
* [[GDF v1.x]] (General Data Format for biomedical signals - Version 1.x)
* [[ GDF v2.x]] (The General Data Format for biomedical signals - Version 2.x)
* [[ HL7aECG]] (Health Level 7 v3 annotated ECG)
* [[OpenXDF]] (Open Exchange Data Format)
* [[SCP-ECG]] (Standard Communication Protocol for Computer assisted electrocardiography)
* [[SIGIF]] (A digital SIGnal Interchange Format)
* [[WFDB]] (Format of Physiobank)

== Chemical ==
* [[CCP4]] (X-ray crystallography voxels (electron density))
* [[CHM]] (ChemDraw file format)
* [[CIF]] (Crystallographic Information File, standardised by IUCr)
* [[CML]] (Chemical markup language)
* [[CTab]] (Chemical table file .mol, .sd, .sdf)
* [[HITRAN]] (spectroscopic data with one optical/infrared transition per line in the ASCII file (.hit))
* [[JCAMP]] (Joint Committee on Atomic and Molecular Physical Data, .dx, .jdx)
* [[MOL]] (MDL Molfile)
* [[MOP]] (MOPAC format)
* [[MRC]] (voxels in cryo-electron microscopy)
* [[PDB]] (Protein Data Bank)
* [[SDF]] (Structure Data File)
* [[SMILES]] (Simplified molecular input line entry specification, .smi)
* [[SPC]] (spectroscopic data)

Chemical data may be distinguished in various ways, including [http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/ Chemical MIME] types.

== Ecological ==
* [[Darwin Core]] (Standard for sharing information about biological diversity)
* [[EML]] (Ecological Metadata Language)

== Geographic and Geospatial ==

See also [[Geospatial]]

* [[DEM]] (Digital Elevation Model)
* [[DOQ]] (Digital Orthophotos)
* [[e00]] (ESRI ArcInfo Interchange File)
* [[FGDC]] (Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata??)
* [[GeoTIFF]] (Geospatial extensions to TIFF)
* [[GML]] (Geography Markup Language)
* [[HDFEOS, HD2, HD4]] (Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System)
* [[KML]] (KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language), Version 2.2)
* [[NDF]] (National Landsat Archive Production System (NLAPS) Data Format)
* [[SAIF]] (Spatial Archive and Interchange Format, Canadian)
* [[SDTS]] (Spatial Data Transfer Standard)
* [[shp and shx]] (ESRI Shaepfile must have components; other optional components as well, see entry)
* [[SID]] (MrSID- Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database)
* [[TAB]] (MapInfo dataset format, must have component)

== Mathematical ==
* [[graph6, sparse6]] (ASCII encoding of Adjacency matrices (.g6, .s6))
* [[M]] (Mathematica package file)
* [[MathML]]
* [[WP2]] WinPlot

== Medical Imaging ==
* [[AFNI]] (data, meta-data (.BRIK,.HEAD))
* [[MGH]] (uncompressed)
* [[MGZ]] (zip-compressed)
* [[Analyze data, meta-data]] (.img,.hdr)
* [[DICOM]] (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (.dcm))
* [[MINC]] (Medical Imaging NetCDF format; since version 2.0, based on HDF5 (.mnc))
* [[OME-TIFF]] (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
* [[OME-XML]] (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
* [[OST (Open Spatio-Temporal)]] (extensible, open alternative for microscope images)
* [[nii]] (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative (NIfTI) single-file (combined data and meta-data))
* [[gii]] (NIfTI offspring for brain surface data, single-file (combined data and meta-data) style)
* [[.img,.hdr]] (NIfTI offspring for brain surface data, dual-file (separate data and meta-data, respectively) style)
* [[SDM]] (Signed Differential Mapping- brain maps(.sdm))

== Oceanographic, Atmospheric and Meteorological ==

* [[GRIB]] (Grid in Binary)
* [[BUFR]] (Binary Universal Format Representation)
* [[IOAPI]] (netCDF augmented with metadata from the I/O API)
* [[PP]] (UK Met Office format for weather model data)

== Physics ==

* [[CGNS]] (Computational Fluid Dynamics General Notation System)
* [[NeXuS]] (Common data format for neutron, x-ray and muon science)
* [[QCDml]] (Lattice QCD gauge configuration markup language)

== Scientific Signal data ==

* [[ACQ]] (AcqKnowledge File Format for Windows)
* [[BKR]] (EEG data format)
* [[BDF]] (BioSemi data format)
* [[CFWB]] (Chart Data File Format)
* [[EDF]] (European data format)
* [[FEF]] (File Exchange Format for Vital signs)
* [[GDF]] (General data formats for biomedical signals)
* [[GMS]] (Gesture And Motion Signal format)
* [[IROCK]] (intelliRock Sensor Data File Format)
* [[MFER]] (Medical waveform Format Encoding Rules)
* [[SCP-ECG]] (Standard Communication Protocol for Computer assisted electrocardiography)
* [[SEG Y]] (Reflection seismology data format)
* [[SIGIF]] (SIGnal Interchange Format)

== Social Sciences ==

* [[DDI]] (Data Documentation Initiative)
* [[SAS]] (Statistical package)
* [[SPSS]] (Statistical package)

Electronic File Formats

2012-11-05T01:32:26Z

Michael: maths is not always science, so I added that science includes maths,

{|
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|Electronic File Formats
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Formats based on electronic/online media.

* [[3D and CAD/CAM Models]]
* [[Address books and contacts]]
* [[Audio]]
* [[Bibliographic data]] - Catalogues, Finding aids and Reference lists
* [[Calendars]]
* [[Cameras and Digital Image Sensors]]
* [[Character Encoding]]
* [[Compression]]
* [[Database]]
* [[Disk Image Formats]]
* [[Document]] - Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation
* [[E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums]]
* [[Electronic Publishing formats]]
* [[Encryption]]
* [[Executables]]
* '''[[Filesystem]]''' - File systems are the protocols by which multiple files are stored and organized by an operating system
* [[Fonts]]
* [[Genealogical data]]
* [[Geospatial]]
* [[Graphics]]
* [[Help files]]
* [[Interactive Fiction]]
* [[Machine Embroidery]]
* [[Mind maps, Topic maps etc]]
* [[Music]] - for musical notation and musical-instrument control, rather than audio files
* [[Personal Digital Assistant formats]]
* [[Saved Games]]
* [[Scientific Data formats]] and mathematics related formats
* [[Security]]
* [[Serialization]]
* [[Source code]]
* [[Text-based data]]
* [[Video]]
* [[Web]]

=== Temporary Categories ===

As the ontology grows quickly, some formats and concepts of formats are harder to easily classify - they'll temporarily be here during a quick debate.

* [[ROM Images]]
* [[Binary Data]] (<- Move some or all of these to other categories)
* [[Resource Fork]]

SDC

2012-11-05T01:27:21Z

Michael: created page.

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SDC was used by StarOffice as the spreadsheet format.

Document

2012-11-05T01:23:31Z

Michael: /* Spreadsheet */ added SDC

{|
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|Document
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== Markup ==
* [[HTML]] (HyperText Markup Language)
* [[Markdown]]
* [[SGML]] (Standard Generalised Markup Format)
* [[TEI]] (Specialised dialect of SGML)
* [[TEX]] (TeX)
* [[XHTML]] (Extensible HTML)
* [[XML]]

== Presentation ==
* [[ODP]] (OpenDocument presentation)
* [[PPT]] (PowerPoint presentation)
* [[PPTX]] (PowerPoint presentation, XML format)
* [[SXI]] (StarOffice)

== Spreadsheet ==
* [[ODS]] (OpenDocument spreadsheet)
* [[SDC]] (StarOffice spreadsheet)
* [[XLS]] (Excel spreadsheet format)
* [[XLSX]] (Excel spreadsheet format, XML version)

== Word Processor ==
* [[ABW]] (Abiword word processor)
* [[CHI]] (ChiWriter word processor)
* [[DOC]] (Word document)
* [[DOCX]] (Word document, XML format)
* [[DOT]] (Word template)
* [[DOTX]] (Word template, XML format)
* [[TechWriter|EasiWriter]] (Word processor file format)
* [[ODT]]
* [[OTT]]

== Other ==
* [[602]]
* [[ACL]]
* [[AFP]]
* [[ANS]]
* [[ASC]]
* [[AWW]]
* [[AZW]]
* [[CCF]]
* [[CSV]]
* [[CWK]]
* [[DJVU]]
* [[DOX]] (Mutimate document, and others)
* [[EGT]]
* [[EPUB]]
* [[FDX]]
* [[FTM]]
* [[FTX]]
* [[GM6]] (Game Maker 6 source)
* [[GMK]] (Game Maker 7-8 source)
* [[HWP]]
* [[HWPML]]
* [[Impression]] (Desktop Publishing file format)
* [[LWP]]
* [[MBP]]
* [[MCW]]
* [[MOBI]]
* [[NB]]
* [[NBP]]
* [[ODM]]
* [[OMM]]
* [[PAGES]]
* [[PAP]]
* [[PAT]] (Multimate document, and many others)
* [[PDAX]]
* [[PDF]] (Portable Document Format)
* [[QUOX]]
* [[RTF]] (Rich Text Format)
* [[RTFD]] (Rich Text Format Directory)
* [[RPT]]
* [[scriv]] (Scrivener document format)
* [[SDW]]
* [[STW]]
* [[SXW]]
* [[TechWriter]] (Scientific word processor file format)
* [[TXT]] (Un-structured text document)
* [[UOF]]
* [[UOML]]
* [[VIA]]
* [[WPD]]
* [[WPS]]
* [[WPT]]
* [[WRD]]
* [[WRF]]
* [[WRI]]
* [[XPS]]

Encryption

2012-11-05T01:20:45Z

Michael: added truecrypt

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Formats for the storage of encrypted data.

* [[PGP]]
* [[ROT13]]
* The TrueCrypt format

See also [[Security]]. Various other formats, including [[compression]] and archiving formats, may support encryption as a built-in feature or through plug-ins.

SXW

2012-11-05T01:19:20Z

Michael: added nav

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SXW is a format previously used by Star Office Writer, and then OpenOffice.org Writer. It is the base file format for the [[ODT]] format.

SXI

2012-11-05T01:19:02Z

Michael: created page.

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SXI was used by StarOffice as a presentation format.

Document

2012-11-05T01:17:29Z

Michael: /* Presentation */ added SXI

{|
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|Document
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== Markup ==
* [[HTML]] (HyperText Markup Language)
* [[Markdown]]
* [[SGML]] (Standard Generalised Markup Format)
* [[TEI]] (Specialised dialect of SGML)
* [[TEX]] (TeX)
* [[XHTML]] (Extensible HTML)
* [[XML]]

== Presentation ==
* [[ODP]] (OpenDocument presentation)
* [[PPT]] (PowerPoint presentation)
* [[PPTX]] (PowerPoint presentation, XML format)
* [[SXI]] (StarOffice)

== Spreadsheet ==
* [[ODS]] (OpenDocument spreadsheet)
* [[XLS]] (Excel spreadsheet format)
* [[XLSX]] (Excel spreadsheet format, XML version)

== Word Processor ==
* [[ABW]] (Abiword word processor)
* [[CHI]] (ChiWriter word processor)
* [[DOC]] (Word document)
* [[DOCX]] (Word document, XML format)
* [[DOT]] (Word template)
* [[DOTX]] (Word template, XML format)
* [[TechWriter|EasiWriter]] (Word processor file format)
* [[ODT]]
* [[OTT]]

== Other ==
* [[602]]
* [[ACL]]
* [[AFP]]
* [[ANS]]
* [[ASC]]
* [[AWW]]
* [[AZW]]
* [[CCF]]
* [[CSV]]
* [[CWK]]
* [[DJVU]]
* [[DOX]] (Mutimate document, and others)
* [[EGT]]
* [[EPUB]]
* [[FDX]]
* [[FTM]]
* [[FTX]]
* [[GM6]] (Game Maker 6 source)
* [[GMK]] (Game Maker 7-8 source)
* [[HWP]]
* [[HWPML]]
* [[Impression]] (Desktop Publishing file format)
* [[LWP]]
* [[MBP]]
* [[MCW]]
* [[MOBI]]
* [[NB]]
* [[NBP]]
* [[ODM]]
* [[OMM]]
* [[PAGES]]
* [[PAP]]
* [[PAT]] (Multimate document, and many others)
* [[PDAX]]
* [[PDF]] (Portable Document Format)
* [[QUOX]]
* [[RTF]] (Rich Text Format)
* [[RTFD]] (Rich Text Format Directory)
* [[RPT]]
* [[scriv]] (Scrivener document format)
* [[SDW]]
* [[STW]]
* [[SXW]]
* [[TechWriter]] (Scientific word processor file format)
* [[TXT]] (Un-structured text document)
* [[UOF]]
* [[UOML]]
* [[VIA]]
* [[WPD]]
* [[WPS]]
* [[WPT]]
* [[WRD]]
* [[WRF]]
* [[WRI]]
* [[XPS]]

SDW

2012-11-05T01:15:54Z

Michael: created page.

SDW is a file format previously used by StarOffice Writer. It can be opened by [http://abisource.com/ Abiword].

Acorn Font

2012-11-05T01:09:19Z

Michael: changed graphics to fonts in nav

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== Overview ==

Acorn Font files are the native format for fonts on RISC OS. Each file contains data that describes aspects of a particular typeface and weight, describing each glyph using either a vector representation (an outline font) or a bitmap. Fonts are used for on-screen rendering and printing.

Outline fonts are described by two separate files: IntMetrics and Outlines. The IntMetrics file contains information about the sizes and shapes of each glyph, kerning and basic styles. The Outlines file contains definitions of the glyphs.

Character encoding files describe the mapping between character numbers and the glyph definitions for each font.

== Resources ==

* [http://www.wss.co.uk/pinknoise/Docs/Arc/Fonts/Formats.html Font File Formats]

Fonts

2012-11-05T01:09:11Z

Michael: created page.

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Fonts describe how text looks. There are a number of formats that describe fonts for computers.

* [[Acorn Font]]
* [[TTF|TrueType]]
* [[OpenType]]
See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Font_formats Wikipedia] for more.

Electronic File Formats

2012-11-05T01:05:12Z

Michael: added Fonts

{|
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Formats based on electronic/online media.

* [[3D and CAD/CAM Models]]
* [[Address books and contacts]]
* [[Audio]]
* [[Bibliographic data]] - Catalogues, Finding aids and Reference lists
* [[Calendars]]
* [[Cameras and Digital Image Sensors]]
* [[Character Encoding]]
* [[Compression]]
* [[Database]]
* [[Disk Image Formats]]
* [[Document]] - Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation
* [[E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums]]
* [[Electronic Publishing formats]]
* [[Encryption]]
* [[Executables]]
* '''[[Filesystem]]''' - File systems are the protocols by which multiple files are stored and organized by an operating system
* [[Fonts]]
* [[Genealogical data]]
* [[Geospatial]]
* [[Graphics]]
* [[Help files]]
* [[Interactive Fiction]]
* [[Machine Embroidery]]
* [[Mind maps, Topic maps etc]]
* [[Music]] - for musical notation and musical-instrument control, rather than audio files
* [[Personal Digital Assistant formats]]
* [[Saved Games]]
* [[Scientific Data formats]]
* [[Security]]
* [[Serialization]]
* [[Source code]]
* [[Text-based data]]
* [[Video]]
* [[Web]]

=== Temporary Categories ===

As the ontology grows quickly, some formats and concepts of formats are harder to easily classify - they'll temporarily be here during a quick debate.

* [[ROM Images]]
* [[Binary Data]] (<- Move some or all of these to other categories)
* [[Resource Fork]]

Talk:Operating Systems

2012-11-05T01:00:31Z

Michael: my two cents

Is there a better term for this than "Free Operating System"? To me, that would include free UNIXes or other free OSes unrelated to proprietary systems. The usage here seems to be "free operating systems (that are compatible with non-free systems). Which makes sense for this project, but I'm the terminology seems funny if that's what we mean. [[User:Tungol|Tungol]] ([[User talk:Tungol|talk]]) 07:01, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Is there a reason we're only listing Free/open source OS here? It's very limiting. this Should be comprehensive

:I agree... even if (some of) the authors here have ideological or practical reasons to favor the promotion of free and open-source OSs, the aim of this site is to aid in digital archaeology, which means that people will want to use it to become educated about the range of different operating systems and platforms that have existed over the history of computing, and the compatibilities and incompatibilities thereof, including all systems whether proprietary or open. [[User:Dan Tobias|Dan Tobias]] ([[User talk:Dan Tobias|talk]]) 23:04, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

::Yeah, I'm sorry for not getting on this sooner - I consider this a well-meaning error, indicating that we would be focusing on open standards and in doing so use the open standards of free operating systems. But we should be logging as many known operating systems as possible, with categories created for known formats that are specific to those operating systems. But yeah, "Free" shouldn't be the name of it, although I'm all for noting a particular OS is open-source. --[[User:Jason Scott|Jason Scott]] ([[User talk:Jason Scott|talk]]) 00:33, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

My two cents on the issue is that Free Systems should be listed apart as non-free ones have legal issues (copyright being of course the major one). Free OS's can be used independently of any other system and can more easily keep older software alive. Of course we should list all the various OS's, but for the purposes for which I understand this wiki to exist, OS's that can be used without legal issue are better. But whatever :) (I'm not even sure that makes sense.) [[User:Michael|Michael]] ([[User talk:Michael|talk]]) 01:00, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

SXW

2012-11-05T00:54:49Z

Michael: created page.

SXW is a format previously used by Star Office Writer, and then OpenOffice.org Writer. It is the base file format for the [[ODT]] format.

Bochs

2012-11-05T00:44:58Z

Michael: created page.

bochs is a Free "IA-32 (x86) PC emulator".

* [http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ Project website]

QEMU

2012-11-05T00:43:25Z

Michael: linked emulator to Virtualization_Software

'''QEMU''' is a Free [[Virtualization_Software|emulator]].

* [http://qemu.org QEMU website]

Virtualization Software

2012-11-05T00:43:17Z

Michael: added bochs

* [[VMWare Workstation]] / [[VMWare Player]] / [[VMWare vCenter]]
* [[VirtualBox]]
* [[Parallels Desktop]]
* [[Virtual PC]]
* [[Hyper-V]]
* [[Xen]]
* [[QEMU]]
* [[bochs]]

QEMU

2012-11-05T00:42:06Z

Michael: created page (needs lots of work of course)

'''QEMU''' is a Free emulator.

* [http://qemu.org QEMU website]

Virtualization Software

2012-11-05T00:35:56Z

Michael: added QEMU

* [[VMWare Workstation]] / [[VMWare Player]] / [[VMWare vCenter]]
* [[VirtualBox]]
* [[Parallels Desktop]]
* [[Virtual PC]]
* [[Hyper-V]]
* [[Xen]]
* [[QEMU]]

PDF

2012-11-05T00:34:20Z

Michael: created page

'''PDF''', portable document format, based on [[PS|PostScript]] and originally from Adobe, has many subsets.

As well as the 'full function' ISO 32000-1:2008 (or PDF 1.7) there is also PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/E, PDF/VT and PDF/UA all of which are ISO specifications.

Executable and Linkable Format

2012-11-05T00:31:37Z

Michael: created page

'''ELF''', Executable and Linkable Format, is an executable file format.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format The Wikipedia article] has a long list of links to various specifications.

7ZIP

2012-11-05T00:23:45Z

Michael: fixed bloody link

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'''7Z''' is a compression and archiving format.

* [http://www.7zip.com/ program website]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z Wikipedia article]

7ZIP

2012-11-05T00:23:21Z

Michael: added link to http://www.7zip.com/

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'''7Z''' is a compression and archiving format.

* [http://www.7zip.com/ | program website]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z Wikipedia article]

Help files

2012-11-05T00:22:12Z

Michael: added Man pages

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Formats specific to the storage and transmission of Help files.

* [[chm]] (Microsoft Compiled HML Help)
* Whatever weird hypertext format qbasic used
* [[texinfo]]
* [[Man pages]]

Binary Data

2012-10-28T18:41:13Z

Michael: crumbs

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* [[Data Interchange Format]]
* [[IBM Plans+]]
* [[Lotus 1-2-3]]
* [[Lotus Symphony]]
* [[MultiMate Professional Word Processor]]
* [[Microsoft MultiPlan]]
* [[SuperCalc 3]]
* [[Super Data Interchange Format]]
* [[SYLK]]
* [[Visicalc]]
* [[Wordstar]]
* [[Wordstar 2000]]

Binary Data

2012-10-28T18:40:46Z

Michael: crumbs

{|
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* [[Data Interchange Format]]
* [[IBM Plans+]]
* [[Lotus 1-2-3]]
* [[Lotus Symphony]]
* [[MultiMate Professional Word Processor]]
* [[Microsoft MultiPlan]]
* [[SuperCalc 3]]
* [[Super Data Interchange Format]]
* [[SYLK]]
* [[Visicalc]]
* [[Wordstar]]
* [[Wordstar 2000]]

Haiku

2012-10-28T18:28:29Z

Michael: added link to BFS

'''Haiku''' is a Free implementation of BeOS. It aims to be binary compatible with BeOS.
It implements a version of [[BFS]].

* [http://www.haiku-os.org/ Haiku website]

BFS

2012-10-28T18:05:22Z

Michael: created page

BFS (also BeFS) is the file format for BeOS. See also [[Haiku]] which is a recreation of BeOS and can read BFS to a greater or lesser extent.

See also:
* [http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/06/the-beos-filesystem/ The BeOS file system: an OS geek retrospective] accessed 28 Oct 2012.

Haiku

2012-10-28T17:52:49Z

Michael: created page (wikipedia wikipedia wikipedia)

'''Haiku''' is a Free implementation of BeOS. It aims to be binary compatible with BeOS.

* [http://www.haiku-os.org/ Haiku website]

DOC

2012-10-28T16:28:02Z

Michael: created page (wikipedia wikipedia wikipedia)

MS Word Doc format is a family of formats used by older versions of MS Word (they now use [[DOCX]]).
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#File_formats Wikipedia says] the following four types exist
* Word for DOS
* Word 1 & Word 2 for MS Windows, and Word 4 & 5 for Mac
* Word 6 & Word 95 for MS Windows, and Word 6 for Mac
* Word 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 & 2010 for MS Windows, and Word 98, 2001, X, & 2004 for Mac

AbiWord

2012-10-28T16:19:20Z

Michael: created page with basis info and links to more.

ABW is the format used by AbiWord a Free multi-platform word processor.
It is a [[XML]] based format

* [http://abisource.com/ AbiWord website]
* [http://www.abisource.com/wiki/File_format info about the file format]
* [http://www.abisource.com/wiki/AbiWord page has a sample file]
* [http://www.abisource.com/wiki/FaqAbiWordNativeFormatToText to convert to plain text]

ReactOS

2012-10-28T16:12:09Z

Michael: created page with basis info.

'''ReactOS''' is a Free implementation of MS Windows and is intended to be binary compatible at both the user level and driver level.

* [http://www.reactos.org/ ReactOS website]