PQA

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== Identification ==
 
== Identification ==
 
ASCII "{{magic|pqa clpr}}" appears at offset 60.
 
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== Software ==
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* {{Deark}}
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== Sample files ==
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* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/palmQueryApplication/
  
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==

Revision as of 16:11, 23 January 2023

File Format
Name PQA
Ontology
Extension(s) .pqa

PQA (Palm Query Application) is a Palm OS Database (PDB) format used specifically for storing Web content via web clipping applications. The HTML portions are stored in Compressed Markup Language, a compact binary form of HTML content where the code is converted to a sequence of bytes of a tokenized format.

In PQA data, the CML code is then combined with other Web content such as images. The bytes of the binary representation are further compressed in a bitwise scheme where fewer than 8 bits are used to encode many common characters.

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Identification

ASCII "pqa clpr" appears at offset 60.

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