View source for Mork

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'''Mork''' is a Netscape/Mozilla database file format used in various programs (such as the [[Firefox history file]] in version 2). Its use has been replaced by other things (primarily [[DB (SQLite)|SQLite]]) in some of the more prominent Mozilla uses these days, but it is still used in the Thunderbird e-mail program (according to Wikipedia, though Chris Blizzard reported in 2011 that it had been excised from the entire Mozilla code tree).

It is text-based, but not very human-readable. Former Netscape engineer Jamie Zawinski has called it "...the single most braindamaged file format that I have ever seen in my nineteen year career" (written in a Mozilla Bugzilla report in 2004).

== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Mork (file format)|Wikipedia article]]
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news/fxmZyVMp9gM/8dz1GfCKfNUJ Mork 1.1 grammar]
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241438#c0 Jamie Zawinski's comments (Bug 241438)]
* [http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/07/mork-keeps-on-giving-when-the-database-worms-eat-into-your-murder-trial/ Mork keeps on giving: When the database worms eat into your murder trial (more JWZ comments)]
* [http://www-archive.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.txt Syntax description]
* [http://www.jwz.org/hacks/mork.pl Perl script to read Mork file]

[[Category:Mozilla]]
[[Category:Netscape]]