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Anonymoususer852: /* List of Places Keeping Track of Formats */ update link for binwalk, old website appears to be owned by an online gambling site before it is behind Cloudflare, that is also apparently blocking IPs.

2025-08-15T12:58:52Z

‎List of Places Keeping Track of Formats: update link for binwalk, old website appears to be owned by an online gambling site before it is behind Cloudflare, that is also apparently blocking IPs.

Ljcool2006: /* List of Places Keeping Track of Formats */

2024-05-17T10:26:54Z

‎List of Places Keeping Track of Formats

MihaiPopa7: /* List of Places Keeping Track of Formats */ Spelling and grammar fixes.

2024-02-16T03:58:15Z

‎List of Places Keeping Track of Formats: Spelling and grammar fixes.

Thorsted: /* Books */

2023-10-09T21:16:51Z

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Jsummers: Updating Forensics Wiki links

2023-09-02T13:09:02Z

Updating Forensics Wiki links

Foxtrot: /* List of Places Keeping Track of Formats */

2023-03-15T16:56:57Z

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Foxtrot: /* List of Places Keeping Track of Formats */

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Foxtrot: /* List of Places Keeping Track of Formats */

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2023-03-15T16:36:10Z

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Tomodachi94: Add Wikidata

2023-02-13T00:13:05Z

Add Wikidata

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 | File-format grammars
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-| [http://www.binwalk.org Binwalk]
+| [https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk Binwalk]
 | Can recognise and extract data in many formats embedded inside firmware images
 |-

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 | http://wotsit.org/
-| (their download page is broken. need to ping webmaster about that.)
+| (<s>their download page is broken. need to ping webmaster about that.</s> now the entire website is just a parking page)
 |-
 | http://unarchiver.c3.cx/formats

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 | http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_formats
-| detailed information on eBook formats.
+| detailed information on e-Book formats.
 |-
 | http://mediapedia.nla.gov.au/
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+|
 |-
-| [http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/mimetypes.py#l402 Python sourcecode for mimetypes module]
+| [http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/mimetypes.py#l402 Python source code for mimetypes module]
 | /etc/mimetypes on *nix systems defines a number of file formats and [[MIME types]]
 |-
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 | [http://gitorious.org/msoscheme msoscheme]
-| Project that creates a machine readable description of the binary file formats of Microsoft Office
+| Project that creates a machine-readable description of the binary file formats of Microsoft Office
 |-
 | http://www.schnarff.com/file-formats/
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 |-
 | [http://www.binwalk.org Binwalk]
-| Can recognise and extract data in many formats embeddded inside firmware images
+| Can recognise and extract data in many formats embedded inside firmware images
 |-
 | http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/X-Window-System-fonts.html
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 |-
 | https://extension.nirsoft.net
-| Xontains program data related to files.
+| Contains program data related to files.
 |}

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 * [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/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) [https://archive.org/details/mac_Internet_File_Formats_1995 Archive.org Scan], [https://archive.org/details/internet-file-formats-cd Companion CD-ROM]
 * [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)

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 | [https://filext.com/ FilExt]
 | Similar to FileInfo
 |-
 | http://archivematica.org/preservation
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 ! URL !! Notes
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 | http://wotsit.org/

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+{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
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 * 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://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
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 * http://wotsit.org/ (their download page is broken. need to ping webmaster about that.)
 * http://unarchiver.c3.cx/formats ([https://web.archive.org/web/20170721220043/http://unarchiver.c3.cx/formats View on the Wayback Machine])
 ==Emulation==

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 *[https://fileinfo.com/ FileInfo] - gives a vast catalog of file extensions, but the data they give is very minimal.
 *[https://filext.com/ FilExt] - ditto as FileInfo
 * http://archivematica.org/preservation
 * http://www.fileformat.info/
 * http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
 * 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])
 * [https://wikidata.org Wikidata] - we can use SPARQL to [https://w.wiki/6L8g query for MIME types] or [https://w.wiki/6L8h file extensions].
 * [[PRONOM|The PRONOM format registry]]
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 * [[Atari Forum Wiki]]
 * http://www.undocprint.org/ - Information on printing-related formats, languages, and protocols
-*[https://extension.nirsoft.net/] -  contains program data related to files.
+* https://extension.nirsoft.net -  contains program data related to files.
 ==Emulation==