Windows Animated Cursor
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Windows Animated Cursor Format (ANI) is an animated image format, mostly used for cursors (mouse pointer graphics) on Microsoft Windows.| Contents | 
Format
ANI files use the RIFF container format. Individual frames can be encoded in ICO format, CUR format, or a "raw pixel data" format that does not seem to be fully documented.
Identification
Files begin with 'R' 'I' 'F' 'F' ?? ?? ?? ?? 'A' 'C' 'O' 'N'.
Sample files
- http://cd.textfiles.com/desktopworks/CURSORS/
- http://www.anicursor.com/diercur.html
- http://www.angelfire.com/my/plinth/cursors.html
Links
- GFF Format Summary: Microsoft RIFF (from archive.org)
- Wikipedia article

