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• Databases
  * [[Access]] (was also known as Jet)
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• Interactive Fiction
  Also known as "adventure games" or "text adventures" after the Original (Colossal Cave) A ...ehack: in-browser '80s-style telnet interface, includes original Adventure as 'advent' command]
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• Error Code Modeler
  ...ions from disc images, which compress poorly and can be recalculated later as needed.
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• Serialization
  '''Serialization''' is used to transform data structures (as used within a program, in whatever native formats might be used by the prog * [[XML]] (originally intended only as a markup format, but ended up as probably the most popular serialization format)
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• Property List
  ...sed format for Mac OS X, and later on they also introduced a binary format as well, which is now the default save format for preference files.
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• Property List/Binary
  ...tion of the offsets of all of the elements in the plist, each offset given as an unsigned integer in a fixed number of bytes. An object in the plist has ...an offset value. Valid values are 1, 2, 3, or 4. Offset values are encoded as unsigned, big endian integers. Must be wide enough to encode the offset of
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• Photographic film
  ...y size. Additional distinctions include black-and-white vs. color, as well as film speed (how sensitive it is to light, affecting how long of an exposure ...ere also "silent movies" which had no audio, but typically a musician such as a piano player performed while the film was played.
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• 35 mm film strips
  ...such that two image frames of a filmstrip take up the same amount of space as a single 35mm frame.
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• Filesystem
  (How files are organized on one system, device, or medium, such as a disk, tape, or flash memory; see next category for networked and cloud fi * [[CMS filesystem]] (IBM mainframe z/VM operating system, formerly known as VM/CMS)
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• Emulation Software
  .... Virtualization software uses hardware of the machine it runs on and acts as a gateway to share resources between the host-machine and the virtualized [ * [[higan]] (formerly known as bsnes) (open source, primarily [[SNES]], but recently also supports NES/[[G
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• Written Languages
  ...xt into digitized characters (for further processing or indexing) is known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). ...form, a visual medium, various non-visual representations also exist, such as the tactile code of [[Braille]] and the auditory [[Morse code]]. These are
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• Identifying Physical Media
  ...e readily identified as such at first glance; others may not be identified as media at all and never investigated. Some categories and examples follow. ...shape. More modern variants of optical storage may not be transparent such as CDs and DVDs.
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• Identifying Files
  Some systems, such as [[HTTP]] and [[MIME]], use [[MIME types]] to identify a file's data type. H
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• Statement of Project
  ...Jason Scott proposed the idea of '''Let's Just Solve The Problem Month'''. As described in his weblog entry, the idea was to use an agreed-upon month (No ...This Wiki is an attempt to bring together all that spread out information. As written in that entry:
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• NES Sound Format
  ...cluding both standalone players and plugins for popular media players such as Winamp. ....net/#festalon Festalon] is an open-source xmms and Winamp plugin, as well as a standalone command-line NSF player.
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• Operating Systems
  ...level, they are also driver compatible (allowing the use of older hardware as well).
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• Impression
  ...between different products in the series. Initially, documents were stored as a collection of files in a directory, but later versions could store docume
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• TechWriter
  ...l currently developed] by MW Software. It provides the same basic features as EasiWriter and adds support for equation editing and display.
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• DOC
  ...versions of [[Microsoft Word|MS Word]] (they now use [[DOCX]] as a default as of [[Microsoft Office|Office]] 2007). ...lletin board system (BBS). But you might still try opening them with Word (as will normally happen in Windows if you have Word installed and double-click
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• ZIP
  ZIP was created in 1989 as the native format of the PKZIP program, which was introduced by Phil Katz ( ...that have been widely adopted include large files (using a technique known as ZIP64), and filenames in [[UTF-8]].
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• ARC (compression format)
  ... the ARC file format. The lawsuit was widely regarded by the BBS community as being a "David vs. Goliath" case of a faceless corporation bullying a "litt ... format encourages bad puns referring to those who trawl such old archives as "Raiders of the lost ARC."
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• BFS
  ...FS to a greater or lesser extent. A later re-implemented version was known as Open BFS, and [[SkyFS]] was forked from it.
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• Address books and contacts
  * Microsoft Outlook contacts: Stored as part of the [[Personal Folder File]] - See also [[Microsoft Outlook]]
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• E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums
  ** [[AOL Personal Filing Cabinet]] (includes e-mail as well as other things)
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• Internet e-mail message format
  Collections of multiple messages of this type, such as mailboxes stored for the use of mail programs or list digests and archives, * [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/CHAIN.TXT Copy of e-mail "chain letter" as saved directly off a university mainframe in 1984 and transferred to an IBM
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• SSF
  ...ek's page contains a number of scripts to assist with SSF ripping, as well as his own SSF rips.
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• DSF
  ...ek's page contains a number of scripts to assist with DSF ripping, as well as his own DSF rips.
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• Paper
  ... Paper can be a medium for digital information as well, through media such as [[punched card]]s, [[punched tape]], and [[bar codes]]. ...and the 2nd century AD, and eventually replaced such earlier writing media as [[papyrus]] (made from plants) and [[parchment]] (from animal skins). Gute
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• Acorn Sprite
  '''Acorn Sprite''' (also known as '''RISC OS Sprite''') files are the native format for graphics on RISC OS s
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• Soundfactory
  A music format created in 1989 by Zuheir Urwani and Thomas Kolbe. Also known as the Profiteam Sound Factory format.
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• Programming Languages
  ...ipt, or PHP code which includes HTML). Programming language code is stored as [[source code]] which may be directly interpreted by a machine or compiled ...runch.com/2013/10/10/my-experience-as-a-fourth-grade-hacker/ My Experience As A Fourth Grade Hacker]
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• DWC
  DWC was created by Dean W. Cooper in 1986 as a higher performance alternative to the [[ARC (compression format)|ARC]] (b
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• RSS
  ... format (or, rather, group of formats) for providing feeds of content such as news articles, blog posts, podcasts, or, really, anything that can be distr ...hey could be included on the portal page. The format was initially adapted as a variety of [[RDF]], which in turn was [[XML]]-based. With Netscape promot
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• FAQ
  ...es and binary files are in danger of being unreadable to later generations as no readily available information about accessing them is to be found. Vario ... entries will skirt the edge of reason, or a file format will not be clear as to where it should be filed. This is understandable and will be dealt with,
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• Acorn Draw
  ...d new types could be registered with Acorn. Third party applications, such as DrawPlus, Vector and Poster, were created to provide enhanced editing and c
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• ADFS
  Types of files stored in this file system were designated as [[RISC OS filetype]]s.
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• Disk Image Formats
  ...described on this page's parent page describe entities that exist on disks as they would normally be used. ...pages of this page should contain information on the format itself as well as instructions on how to extract a physical disk into that disk image format,
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• YEnc
  It is justly characterized as "quick and dirty", requiring crude Uuencoding-style heuristics to detect it
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• Spoken Languages
  A major issue is that languages are collapsing as worldwide networking increases - the larger languages outstrip the smaller ...among humans, some languages have been artificially constructed, sometimes as part of fictional universes and other times intended for actual use in comm
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• Editing
  ...s, instead of slaving away making a well-known format's entry as beautiful as possible. This priority over beauty also exists when discussing where a fil The primary focus of the Wiki are electronic file formats, as those are the most fleeting and most likely to be non-evident. It's good pe
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• Softdisk Publishing UDF files
  ...f Id Software were working when they started their own game-making company as moonlighters. ...geeks can be pretty arrogant about regarding their own quirky data formats as being "universal" or "uniform", leading to lots of uses of the letter "U" i
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• Z-code
  ...hich can be played using a Z-code interpreter. It is sometimes referred to as Infocom format. There are eight versions of Z-code. The first six were crea ...orb]] container files along with other resources needed for the game, such as images and sounds.
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• Piano Rolls
  ... by hand. Famous musician John Philip Sousa famously denounced all of them as "infernal machines" that were killing real music. ...ormats include velocity information, and in the 1920s famous pianists such as Rachmaninoff and Gershwin made piano roll recordings. They lack many of the
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• BOO
  These are inter-related with [[EVT]] and as such grouped under the [[ELECTONE]] file formats page.
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• EVT
  These are inter-related with [[BOO]] and as such grouped under the [[ELECTONE]] file formats page.
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• ELECTONE
  ...d ends with "F7". This message is listed at the end of the Electone manual as "BULK DUMP DATA". The listing file is created in the same directory as the B00 file, and its name is the name of the B00 file followed by .TXT.
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• Mind maps, Topic maps, etc.
  ... [[Memory files (Upload)|memories]] taken from the human mind being stored as files with a .mem extension which were playable like videos, while the ''Ha * [[mm]] (Freemind format, used by some other software as well)
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• Dangerous Dave level format
  The game levels were embedded in the executable as a series of 1280-byte chunks with 1000 bytes containing tile data in a 100
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• Blorb
  ...e]] and [[Glulx]] IF games, but it is possible to use it for other formats as well. To play an IF game packaged as a Blorb file, you need an interpreter for the base IF file. See [[Z-code]]
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• Electronic Publishing formats
  ...], and [[Web]], since e-publications might also be stored in formats (such as [[PDF]] and [[HTML]]) in those categories, and e-publishing formats may hav
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• CSV
  ...plistic and quite possibly syntactically invalid BNF definition for CSV is as follows: ...ations vary in their interpretation and generation of CSV files. The best, as ever, are strict in what they generate but generous in what they accept. Kn
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• MIDI
  ...ol, which is a real-time messaging format that encodes musical events such as note on/note off, velocity, tempo, controls, etc. ...sociates MIDI program numbers with a specific bank of 175 instruments such as oboes, pianos, drums, and so forth.
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• XML
  ... resource exist. This is a potential preservation risk with XML documents, as they may outlive the DTD and Schema documents that characterize them, or th ... of the tag, like <BR /> instead of <BR>), and these are known as XHTML. This format may be served under the XML or HTML MIME types, and brow
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• SGML
  ...specifics of a particular markup format. [[HTML]] was originally developed as a version of SGML, but has drifted away from this and the current HTML 5 is
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• DOCX
  ...(.DOCX) is the default file format for documents created by Microsoft Word as of Word 2007. The format is based on [[XML]] component files in a containe This format (or the XML components of it) has been referred to as [[WordProcessingML]], a name also used for the standalone XML files the ear
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• Magnetic stripe card
  ...ssette player to an audio plug, and using a ruler to line up the tape head as you run it along the desired track. ([http://www.gae.ucm.es/~padilla/extraw
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• PPTX
  ... is the default file format for documents used by [[Microsoft PowerPoint]] as of PowerPoint 2007. The format can be read by the Open Source OpenOffice an This format has sometimes been referred to as [http://officeopenxml.com/anatomyofOOXML-pptx.php PresentationML] by the sa
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• XLSX
  ...X''') is the default file format for documents used by [[Microsoft Excel]] as of Excel 2007. In prior versions, the default version was [[XLS]]. This format (or the XML components of it) has been referred to as [[SpreadsheetML]], a name also used for the standalone XML files the earlie
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• Image file creation software
  ...ion software is often embedded into chips built into imaging hardware such as digital cameras and scanners. -->
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• Video software
  ...n often be created by software embedded within video capture hardware such as digital video cameras. -->
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• Audio software
  ...e creation software''' can often be built into audio capture hardware such as note taking equipment and electronic synthesisers. -->
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• WAV
  ...al format for first-generation (master) files, often with a metadata chunk as specified in the Broadcast Wave ([[BWF]]) standard.
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• 8 mm movies
  ...rs wide. There are two principal versions: standard 8 mm film (also known as "regular" or "Double") and Super 8, which has smaller and more widely space ...oop" was an early commercial success via direct sales to consumers as well as via exhibition in (sometimes coin-operated) "peep show" adult theaters.
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• Resource Fork
  ...directory called '''resource.frk''', or else a name with an underscore (_) as its first character (e.g., _MACOSX for OS X files) containing subdirectorie
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• ASCII
  ...sort, precluding such character set extensions.) Some writing systems such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were entirely unsuitable for ASCII-based char ASCII characters have been used artistically to draw pictures, which is known as [[ASCII Art]].
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• UTF-8
  ...n alphabet. With other scripts it may not provide as efficient an encoding as [[UTF-16]]. A Unicode code point is encoded as either 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes. (Early versions of UTF-8 defined sequences with
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• Text Encoding Initiative
  ... guidelines are used widely in the humanities and social sciences, as well as by libraries and museums.
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• Python
  ...ng free, open-source software in contrast to proprietary technologies such as those from Microsoft) along with [[Perl]] and [[PHP]]. ...r languages which use explicit items such as curly braces or keywords such as [[Pascal]]'s '''begin''' and '''end''' (though in those languages it is sti
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• ReStructuredText
  ... is a text [[markup]] format with the file ending of .rst. It was created as part of the [[Python]] docutils project and is often used in that community
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• ReStructuredText/spec
  as section headings, bullet lists, and emphasis. The markup used is as minimal and unobtrusive as possible. Less often-used constructs
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• Format validation and analysis software
  As well, [[Wikipedia:Checksum|checksums]], [[Wikipedia:Hash function|hash]] an
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• Mm
  ...9_0_beta2&revision=1.1.2.4]. The schema for the latest development version as of November 2012 is identical.
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• OpenDocument Spreadsheet
  ...ument|Open Document Format for Office Applications]] (commonly referred to as OpenDocument), an [[XML]]-based file format defined by the Organization for ...files, be represented in one of two fashions - as a single XML document or as a collection of several sub-documents within a single package (commonly a [
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• Unicode
  ...various [[Written Languages|writing systems]] (modern or ancient), as well as special symbols of many types, are each given a number. It was devised begi ..., with a minimum of four hex digits. For example, code point 42 is written as U+002A, and code point 1,114,109 is U+10FFFD.
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• JSON
  ...f specialized formats; the geospatial format [[GeoJSON]] is based on JSON, as is the remote-procedure-call protocol [[JSON-RPC]] and the [[JSON-LD]] link ...recede a quote or backslash used as a character within the string, as well as \b for backspace, \f for formfeed, \n for newline, \r for carriage return,
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• Common Data Format
  ...s]. The NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) adopted CDF with some constraints as an archive standard {https://pds-ppi.igpp.ucla.edu/doc/CDF-A-Specification-
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• NetCDF
  ...ted APIs (which are numerous), the user can effectively ignore issues such as endianness. Either of the first two may be referred to as NetCDF-3.
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• Morse code
  ... "dashes", consisting of short and long signals sent over some medium such as a telegraph wire or radio signal. It is named after telegraph pioneer Samue ...r help, which does not require a 3 unit spacing between words, and is sent as a single character would have been, spaced by a single unit of time.
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• ISO 646
  * [[ISO 646-US]] (Same as [[ASCII]]) - [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?name=US-ASCI
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• Inform
  * .i6: Sometimes seen to refer to Inform 6 files as opposed to Inform 7 files, usually in projects mixing both Inform 7 and Inf
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• Glulx
  ...in the [[Blorb]] container format. Usually along with other resources such as [[Graphics|images]] and [[Audio|sounds]].
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• Fig
  ...to other formats suitable for printing or embedding in other objects (such as [[LaTeX]] documents.) Although primarily a vector graphics format it suppor
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• BRU
  ...) BRU came later in the operating system's history than other formats such as FLX and DMP and is therefore somewhat more complex. BRU was used in environ (Is this the same format as that produced by the Tolis Group's BRU product ? I don't know.)
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• Windows 1252
  ...1) (plus the [[ASCII]] control characters of the [[C0 controls]]), as well as additional characters in the range 128-159, which in ISO 8859 is reserved f ...all. Instead, "iso-8859-1" and many other encoding names are to be treated as [https://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/#names-and-labels aliases of Windows 1252].
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• Macintosh encodings
  ...t encoding corporate logos. In practice, the Apple logo is usually encoded as U+F8FF, in Unicode's "private use" area.
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• PRONOM
  * Each record can be downloaded as XML. (e.g. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/10.xml fmt/10.xml * Also [http://test.linkeddatapronom.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ published as linked data], using [http://test.linkeddatapronom.nationalarchives.gov.uk/v
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• Nmind
  ... mind mapping software application, originally for the Mac and now Windows as well. The file format can be created, read and manipulated using the NovaMi ...at [http://www.novamind.com/ http://www.novamind.com/]. The latest version as of 2012 is NovaMind 5. The file format has changed at all or most of the ma
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• Encryption
  (make one type of file appear as a different type of file or no type at all) ...ssion]], [[archiving]], and [[filesystem]] formats, may support encryption as a built-in feature or through plug-ins.
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• ROT13
  would be encoded as this: ...iliar with some common words, phrases, and acronyms as ROT13 encoded, such as "EBG13".
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• IFF
  ...tronic Arts on the Commodore Amiga computer in 1985. It is sometimes known as '''IFF 85'''. IFF defines a number of standard chunks types. Additional types are invented as needed by IFF-based formats.
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• Spark
  ...OS file attributes. Subdirectories are possible, in a way, by storing them as nested Spark archives. ...s to support all methods supported by ''!Spark for UNIX'' 1 and 2, as well as method 9.
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• FidoNet nodelist
  ...ne:net/node.point'''), take the number in field 2 of the entry for the BBS as the 'node' part, and get the 'net' and 'zone' parts by going upward in the ...number as the corresponding nodelist. Compressed versions used A, Z, etc., as the first letter of the extension to note compression method, similarly to
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• Intel HEX
  Intel HEX is a format that stores binary data as hexadecimal digits in ASCII. It's often used for simple memory images, for
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• PETSCII
  ...th the [[C0 controls|C0]] and [[C1 controls|C1]] ranges) to do such things as change the color of text. [[Unicode]], as of version 13.0.0, supports essentially all of the PETSCII glyphs.
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• EXE
  The byte at offset 3 ''should'' be <code>0x00</code> or <code>0x01</code>, as it is the high byte of a field whose valid values are 0 through 511. Howeve
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• COFF
  ...es. It was originally developed for UNIX System V by AT&T. It was intended as a replacement for [[a.out]], adding features like shared libraries and relo
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• FLIC
  '''FLIC''' (also known as '''FLI/FLC''', '''FLI''', or '''FLC''') is a family of animation formats as ...metimes used to mean the specific corresponding format, and sometimes used as collective names for both formats.
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• Source code
  ...'' is the program code of a [[Programming Languages|programming language]] as stored in a computer's memory or in a file or other storage medium (program ... programmer-oriented development environments offer enhanced features such as language-specific syntax highlighting and integrated access to compilers. H
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• JP2
  ...t-files Jpylyzer test files] - annotated set of images, primarily intended as test dataset in support of jpylyzer development. Includes many (deliberatel
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• Bar codes
  ...printed in any arbitrary color (usually black). A bar code format is known as a "symbology".
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