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• Ext:as
  : ''Information for extension '''.as''''' * [[Special:Search/as|Search for 'as' on this wiki]]
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• Category:File formats with extension .as
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• AS/ZC (Zip Chunker)
  |extensions={{ext|as}}, {{ext|zc}} '''AS/ZC''' is what we're calling the container format used for file fragments, b
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• Original Plan
  Obviously, "file formats", as in digital files, are what most people think of, but it would be really nic ... that established groups and individuals are going to have some resistance as to the use of such an endeavor. The most efficient way to do this is to kee
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• User:Csteffen
  * Also conversant in (as long as I can look up the occasional syntax): C++, perl, Make, LaTeX
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• Sources
  ...he content they hold. These could include media across various genres such as cine, video, photo, audio, data, paper carriers, microfilm, etc." | lots of useful info here and often quite detailed as well
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• Binary Data
  "Binary" (as opposed to "text") file formats are not categorized separately.
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• Electronic File Formats
  * '''[[Disk Image Formats]]''' (or tape image, etc.; images of data as stored on physical media) * [[Page description languages]] as used in print preprocessing
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• Graphics
  Other image formats supporting animation, but not usually thought of as animation formats, include [[AVIF]], [[HEIF]], [[JPEG XL]], [[JPX]], and [[ * [[HTC splashscreen]] (also known as NB format)
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• Organic File Formats
  ...-easily-a-1495105058 A Pill That Lets Adults Learn Perfect Pitch as Easily as Kids]
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• Audio and Music
  ** [[Audio Sculpture]] (.as) ...the future might misunderstand 20th century pop culture if artifacts decay as happened in the past]
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• Archiving
  * [[AR]] file format (.a, .lib) -- Unix Archiver (ar) format as used by various compilers/linkers (often a filesystem-level capability, such as ZFS and Btrfs snapshots and Windows Shadow Copy)
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• Video
  ...ther multimedia, tying them together in a presentation or user-interaction as on a disc)
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• Document
  * [[Timeworks Publisher]] (also released as Publish It!) (.dtp) ...ublishing but designed particularly for building structured documents such as technical documentation)
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• Character encoding
  ...epresent them in a file), and some protocols even use parameter names such as 'charset' to indicate which character ''encoding'' is in use, so the termin ...ists of a set of glyphs mapped onto the more abstractly-defined characters as included in the character set that is part of a character encoding.
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• Saved Games
  * [[ZZT]] (save game format is same as the world format)
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• JustSolve:To Do
  ...eadings'''. Right now the priority is to mostly get a good skeleton going. As we go, we're cleaning up hierarchies (especially when there's duplicates in ...rticles by completeness.''' Highlight articles that are excellent, as well as those that are "decent", (above stub level). This is probably best done wit
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• Cameras and Digital Image Sensors
  * [[Camera Image File Format]] (CIFF) as used by Canon: .crw
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• HTML
  ...ates which in due time get frozen into subsequent W3C recommendations such as 5.1, 5.2, etc. ...ercase. Some parts of the respective syntaxes won't mix and still validate as either variety, which is a problem when webmasters paste in code from diver
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• EPUB
  The intent of ePub is to serve both as a source file format and an end user format. For this reason the files are An alternative XML syntax called DTBook was available as an option in this version, but this was removed in EPUB 3.
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• Plain text
  ... such as [[HTML]] and [[XML]], provide some sort of escape sequences (such as ampersands used for character references and entities) allowing special cha ...dows" mode (though it was used in various mainframes and network protocols as well).
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• Cascading Style Sheets
  ...e formerly done using now-deprecated [[HTML]] elements and attributes such as the "font" element.
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• RAD Game Tools
  ... companies. RAD Game Tools is somewhat unusual among [middleware companies as they generally hire one specific person to write, document and support each
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• 3D and CAD/CAM Models
  ...m file]] (.dff) -- commonly used by Grand Theft Auto III-era games as well as other RenderWare titles ...]] - MPO, Multi-Picture Object - This JPEG standard is used for 3d images, as with the Nintendo 3DS
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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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• User:Halftheisland
  ...role here will be to create a basic skeletal structure for as many formats as possible - brief description, links to specs (where available), useful soft I have very limited time to do this at the moment, as a recent move has left me without internet access at home, so I do what I c
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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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• Talk:Physical File Formats
  ...t in LaserDisc as it is more commonly known. Laserdisc has also been known as LaserVision, Disco-Vision, Optical Videodisc System, Reflective Optical Vid ...his should be "Physical Format", or "Physical Object Format" or something, as "File" implies a digital object... or am I the only one there? --[[User:Dar
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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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• Talk:Audio and Music
  For the Audio section, as you can see, I've picked up from whoever started it and kept on with the fo : I'm functioning as Final Editor on this project (unlike most Wikis), so there's a solid voice
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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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• Just Solve the File Format Problem:Community portal
  ...f some kind, but are here on the Wiki instead, because that's how we roll. As things are resolved, they will be moved to the Discussion page. If there's ...l (1:1), nor (1:many) / (many:1) so it makes sense to protect both aspects as definable things - the extension because that's whats most commonly searche
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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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• Talk:Operating Systems
  ...perating systems. But we should be logging as many known operating systems as possible, with categories created for known formats that are specific to th My two cents on the issue is that Free Systems should be listed apart as non-free ones have legal issues (copyright being of course the major one).
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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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• Talk:Document
  ...ormat" rather than simply documents. Should there be a list of genres such as: Word Processing document, Spreadsheet, Presentation, etc? :Well, add it to the list. As long as we know it exists, we can work on tracking down more information. -- [[User
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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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• Template:FormatInfo
  ...kipedia page that describes this format, e.g. "JPEG 2000" will be rendered as [[Wikipedia:JPEG 2000|JPEG 2000]]
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• Talk:Archiving
  ...ory pages - I'll make sure that's in place and we'll have a category piece as well, which will make finding things easier. --[[User:Jason Scott|Jason Sco ...n formats. (Running an archive format through a compressor is not the same as the third category.) We should probably take the opportunity to begin split
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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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• Talk:Electronic File Formats
  3) the options that appear in the save-as drop-down menus in software applications ... of related to filesystems, so does it belong somewhere in that hierarchy? As for Binary Data, those can probably be moved to the specific category they
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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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• Talk:File Formats
  ...f this work is going to include written and spoken human languages as well as computer programming languages. This seems to expand the work quite a bit,
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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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• User:Edsu
  Hi, my name is Ed Summers. I work at the Library of Congress as a software developer. More about me can be found on my [http://inkdroid.org
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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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• Template talk:FormatInfo
  Please add more if you know of them. However, as I've said before, I think massively complex models are dangerous unless the : Easy enough to add a field, although I'm uncertain as to how useful it is. Much more information is needed to actually perform id
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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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• Talk:IFF
  ...ually an abstract container, much like [[RIFF]] (which doesn't have a page as of now). So it should probably be moved to some other section, with LBM, 8S ...or example, IIRC [[AVI]] or [[MKV]] files might contain video data encoded as H.264, MPEG-2, etc. --[[User:Halftheisland|Halftheisland]] ([[User talk:Hal
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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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• Talk:BIOS
  : IMHO hardware should be in the ontology as well, since hardware can have code inside (eg. firmware). Think it should b
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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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• Talk:Executables
  What category would tokenized BASIC programs (as stored in various types of early personal computer) fit into? [[User:Dan To
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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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• User:Darkstar
  * [IN PROGRESS] breadth-first search: find as many obscure formats as possible, and link any resources to them
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• ROM and memory images
  * [[BIN (Nintendo 64)]] (Binary image - Same as Z64) * [[JAP]] (Region specific - Same as Z64)
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• Crtemplate
  Factors that can help identify a candidate file as of this format. Include magic numbers, signatures etc if available. Eg:
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• ICalendar
  ...o reflect updates to the calendar events). Various calendar software (such as the calendar app on [[iOS]] or [[Android]] devices) will let you subscribe ...import which does not automatically update to reflect changes in the event as subscribable calendars do.
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• Org-mode
  Outside of Emacs, Org-mode files can be viewed as human-readable plain text.
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• EAS3
  ...her formats and process it. It is intended to help deal with problems such as endianness and floating point implementation differences between computers.
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• SDF
  ...om the Data Protocols Team for publishing and sharing data (formerly known as Simple Data Format),
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• Cubase
  ...and equipment company Steinberg for music recording, arranging and editing as part of a Digital Audio Workstation. It is one of the oldest DAWs to still ...nberg was acquired by U.S. firm Pinnacle Systems, within which it operated as an independent company before being sold to Yamaha Corporation in December,
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• Talk:Music
  ...y? I.e. should all music files that contain notes in some form or another (as opposed to pure, possibly compressed, PCM data) be in here rather then in A
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• PDF
  As well as the 'full function' ISO 32000-1:2008 (or PDF 1.7), there are also PDF/X, PD ...pec (ISO 32000-2) was published in 2017-07, with some new features as well as clarification of conformance with existing features.
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• Guitar tablatures
  ...ical pieces. It was done in writing (for various other instruments as well as the guitar) for centuries, but is now commonly done in electronic form for ... legal threats or actual litigation because the tablature files are viewed as infringing on the music publishing rights for the songs.
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• Fonts
  Fonts describe how text looks (as opposed to how the characters are represented in text, which is the area of
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• SXI
  '''SXI''' was used by StarOffice as a presentation format. It is a member of the [[OpenOffice.org XML]] family
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• SDC
  '''SDC''' was used by StarOffice as the spreadsheet format.
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• Talk:Web
  I suggest that this page be used as a sort of virtual search, and that the actual formats be included in other
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• Wiki markup
  ...ovices than HTML, but over time tended to get complicated as features such as tables and templates were added. * [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/07/inventing-as-we-go-building-a-visual-editor-for-mediawiki/ Why making visual editors for
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• Development
  ...ing.net/2014/04/24/band-releases-album-as-linux-k.html Band releases album as Linux kernel module]
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• Game data files
  ...at all of these can be enumerated here in some way or another. And as long as the games can still be run by an [[Emulation_Software|Emulator]] it's not t This section details formats such as [[Interplay ACM]] and [[Unreal Music Format]] which are used in a number of
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• Page description languages
  ...ats describe how a page that is to be printed looks like. It's mostly used as final format before the data is sent to the printer. See also [[Document]], * [[Enhanced Metafile|EMF]], a variant of WMF as used by Windows in print spooling
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• GRASP GL
  ...mple container format. It contains embedded files in various formats, such as [[PCPaint PIC]], [[PCPaint CLP|CLP]], [[GRASP font]], and apparently [[GIF]
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• PCPaint PIC
  '''PCPaint PIC''', also known as '''Pictor''' format, is an image format associated with the ''PCPaint'' fam Be aware that there are about four different formats that could be known as "PCPaint PIC". This article and related articles attempt to explain the sit
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• JIS
  * [[JIS X 0208]], supporting Kanji and Hiragana as well. There are 1978, 1983, 1990, and 1997 versions of the standard.
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• ARJ
  ... ARJ32 have a hard-coded expiration date. They do not work, or do not work as well, if they think they are being used after that date. Expiration can man ...Z77 with Huffman coding|LZ77+Huffman]]. These are all essentially the same as [[LHA]]'s "lh6" method, but with the history window artificially limited to
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• PCX
  ... format. However, it was tied closely to platform-specific attributes such as the particular graphic modes available in early PCs, and later lost ground
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• GIF
  ...longside [[JPEG]]), though eventually PNG did become widespread on the Web as well. The patent in question expired in the US in 2003, and in other count ...he format at CompuServe pronounced GIF as "jif" with a soft "G" /ˈdʒɪf/ as in "gin". Steve Wilhite, the engineering lead at CompuServe, said that the
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• Hugo
  Hugo allows for the creation of game with multimedia elements, such as [[Audio|sound]], [[Graphics|images]] and [[Video|video]]. The multimedia re
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• Flexible Image Transport System
  The metadata is stored as a list of key-value pairs, with the keys being up to eight characters long, [[PSRFITS]] is a particular variety of FITS for storing pulsar data, as used, for instance, in the SETI@Home project to analyze such data for possi
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• Tape Archive
  ... on backup tapes. Archived data in the tar format is sometimes referred to as a "tarball". ...ffer built-in support for this combined operation by using a modifier such as '''z''' (gzip) or '''j''' (bzip2). When extracting files, the compression f
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• UltraCompressor II
  ...support for OS/2 extended attributes. It was a commercial program released as a "try-before-you-buy" download. It was developed by Ad Infinitum Programs ...hat a designation like "UltraCompressor II revision 3" is roughly the same as "UltraCompressor version 2.3".''
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• GB
  ... header contains information about the the program and the cartridge, such as title, ROM size, RAM size, type of MBC, which hardware it supports and chec MBC2 ram consists of 256 bytes which are accessible as the low 4 bits of a 512 bytes address range, $a000-$a1ff. The upper 4 bits
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• Thomson-CSF system
  ... partnerships, and lines of business. It is now named Technicolor, and has as one of its subsidiaries the American-based company responsible for the colo
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• Talk:PETSCII
  ...ngs page, unless we're going to include all the ASCII-like encodings, such as UTF-8, ISO 8859, and ISO 646 there. --[[User:Gmcgath|Gmcgath]] ([[User talk
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• UTF-7
  ...h 0XFF). It is compatible with ASCII except that the character "+" is used as a shift code. ... charset code UTF-7 (MIBenum 1012), there is an earlier version designated as charset UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7, alt csUnicode11UTF7, MIBenum 103.
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• Adobe Standard Encoding
  ...be Standard Encoding''' is an 8-bit encoding extended from [[ASCII]], used as the default encoding for many [[PostScript font|PostScript fonts]]. Codes 3
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• VOTable
  The current version (as of late 2012) is VOTable 1.2, standardised in an IVOA Recommendation<ref>Fr ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Virtual_Observatory_Alliance IVOA] acts as a standardisation body for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_observator
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• DjVu
  ...h as a document outline, so the format can serve some of the same purposes as [[PDF]].
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• FAT32
  ...cly. Nowadays the FAT32 filesystem is mostly used on portable devices such as thumbdrives, external hard drives and SD cards.
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• Comics
  ...pictures, usually in sequential panels (though single-panel cartoons exist as well) to tell a story or otherwise communicate information or entertainment ...ns to sizable companies) have challenged the big corporate publishers such as DC and Marvel, though the comic market largely moved from mainstream newsst
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• Talk:FAT32
  ...esystem for any long-term-storage solution as it lacks basic features such as [[permission control]] and [[journaling]]. ...ilesystem/PCX file and want to read it. The warning doesn't help them. And as to whether FAT32 is "good" or "bad" for long term storage: During the late
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• User talk:Darkstar
  ... the format for the dots and for the files that are downloaded to the pen. As such it's not really a ''Game File Format'' (even though the TipToi itself
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• JPEG
  ...e serialized form of the compression format it defines is referred to only as the "interchange format". ITU-T Rec. T.851 refers to the interchange format as ''JPEG-1''.
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• TIFF
  '''TIFF''', formerly known as '''Tag(ged) Image File Format''', is an image format capable of storing mul ...are lossless, including [[LZW]] and, for bitonal images [[CCITT Group 4]], as used for facsimile transmission [fax]. [[JPEG]] baseline DCT-based lossy c
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• MAME
  ...me's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emul
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• PearPC
  ...It can be used to run PowerPC [[Operating_Systems|operating systems]] such as for example Darwin or MacOS. ... Using this CPU, the client will run about 500 times slower than the host. As of version 0.4 the generic CPU emulation runs well even on big-endian and 6
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• Wine
  ...D and Mac OSX. It is not strictly an [[Virtualization_Software|emulator]], as it actually implements Windows API calls.
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• Simple Data format
  ...m C, different versions of FORTAN, and IDL. The software can be downloaded as a tarball from [http://solarmuri.ssl.berkeley.edu/~fisher/public/software/S As noted, the format is described inthe Manifesto at [http://solarmuri.ssl.ber
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• Tabular Data Package
  ...ot related to [[Simple Data format]] by George H. Fisher). It is described as a "simple data publishing format for publishing and sharing data". It is cr
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• SheepShaver
  * Runs MacOS 7.5.2 thru 9.0.4. MacOS X as a guest is not supported.
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• Structure Data File
  ...tructure Data File''' is one of several scientific data file formats known as [[SDF]]. It is a component of the [[CTab]] format for chemical and molecula
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• ISO 8859-1
  ...erate or transmit text, mistakenly identify Windows-1252-encoded documents as ISO-8859-1 in headers and parameters).
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• CCS64
  ... is pixel exact and considers all strange effects, both known and unknown, as it emulates the inner workings of the VIC chip.
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• IPF
  The Software Preservation Society (SoftPres, formerly known as CAPS, the Classical Amiga Preservation Society) have created their own (pro
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• Talk:Video
  ...m other video-like formats. But I think we should try to do ''something''. As it is, animation formats just seem to be listed in random places.
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• Magnetic tape
  * [[Audio Cassette]] (includes uses as computer data storage medium)
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• DXF
  ...inent. Both ASCII and Binary versions can be identified using the same tag as the [[DWG]] format. Binary DXF is not to be confused with [[DXB]], a relate
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• Audio Cassette
  ...ned for such uses as office dictation (replacing earlier technologies such as the [[Dictabelt]]), it eventually achieved greater sound quality to permit ...nd hobby computers of the 1970s and 1980s, audio cassettes were often used as a data storage medium, until disk drives became sufficiently available and
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• DWG
  Below is a list of DWG versions as identified with PRONOM, but more research is needed. [https://help.autodesk
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• Jingle Card Cassette
  ...arying in length from seconds to minutes. It was extensively used by DJ's, as the tape would cue automatically after playing using a pilot tone.
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• Standard Delay Format
  ... delay and timing information of electronic systems". It has been approved as an IEEE standard P1497 in December 2001. A pre-approval version is availabl A Standard Delay Format file contains its own version number as part of its header, see below.
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• Akai Disk Format
  ...plers use MS-DOS formatted disks. Akai S5000/S6000 uses the [[WAV]] format as default but can also read samples produced by earlier samplers. Akai MPC200
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• MAT
  ... source alternative to Matlab, should be able to read and write the format as well. Scientific computing packages [http://numpy.scipy.org/ NumPy and SciP At offset 12 the imaginary flag is stored as 4 byte integer.
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• Nikon
  ...ffers slightly.''' In particular, the D1 does not use the LensIDNumber tag as later cameras do. It also does not store the number of shutter actuations o
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• DNG
  ...resent. However, some files containing this tag would be better identified as a specific [[Cameras and Digital Image Sensors|raw camera format]].
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• VHS
  ...l helical scan, has limited audio and video bandwidth, signals are stacked as layers on the magnetic tape and is an [[Color-under]] ([[Heterodyne]]) vide ...nd a number of recorders support a still-slower speed designated variously as EP (Extended Play) or SLP (Super Long Play), which gives a recording capaci
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• NTSC
  ...d, resulting in shifting of hue. [[PAL]] does not suffer from hue shifting as it uses a smarter devised color carrier.
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• Adlib Tracker II instrument bank
  ... consists of two parts - a header containing authenticity information such as [[CRC]] and the format version, which is ended by one or more values contai
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• Adlib Tracker II module
  ... consists of two parts - a header containing authenticity information such as [[CRC]] and the format version, which is ended by one or more values contai
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• Adlib Tracker II pattern
  ... consists of two parts - a header containing authenticity information such as [[CRC]] and the format version, which is ended by one or more values contai
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• YM
  about the composer, the number of songs, the replay time, ... as well as a musics are stored in their original format (that is exactly the same as what
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• D-Lusion Music File
  Sometimes referred to as D-Lusion / Delusion Music Format or D-Lusion / Delusion Digital Music Forma
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• Ontology
  ...ive) qualities. Ontologies are very important for [[Digital Preservation]] as it makes objects and their relations to other objects easier to describe. A
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• FLAC
  ...extension <code>.flac</code>), or in an [[Ogg]] container (when it's known as OggFLAC). When FLAC is used as a file format, it begins with the ASCII signature "{{magic|fLaC}}".
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• RAR
  ...nd WinRAR. It was originally for DOS, but has been widely used on Windows (as WinRAR) and other platforms. ...1.34 beta (1993-12-05) seems to be the oldest version known to still exist as of this writing. There were probably about a dozen earlier versions, starti
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• PSI-MI XML
  This page describes the PSI-MI XML file format, also known as MIF. The PSI MI format is a data exchange format for molecular interactions <!--Factors that can help identify a candidate file as of this format. Include magic numbers, signatures etc if available. Eg: -->
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• Cool Edit / Audition Multi Track Session file
  ...s not contain audio data but rather settings of a multi track session such as number of tracks, wave position, amplification, equalizing, effects, etc.
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• MITAB
  <!--Factors that can help identify a candidate file as of this format. Include magic numbers, signatures etc if available. Eg: -->
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• Poly Tracker module
  '''.ptm''' files are modules produced by Poly Tracker. As Poly Tracker was intended by the creator (Lone Ranger of AcmE) to be a bett
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• PSI-PAR
  <!--Factors that can help identify a candidate file as of this format. Include magic numbers, signatures etc if available. Eg: -->
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• MzML
  <!--Factors that can help identify a candidate file as of this format. Include magic numbers, signatures etc if available. Eg: -->
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• ATASCII
  ...number of programs to portray ATASCII on modern operating systems, as well as fonts designed from the originals.
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• MP3
  ...s specified by [[MPEG-1]] Layer III and [[MPEG-2]] Layer III, standardized as ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993, with some additions in ISO/IEC 13818-3:1995. It uses
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• Softdisk Family Tree
  ...other versions were released as standalone programs in various places such as an online download store. Later versions could import and export [[GEDCOM] ...cters) stored in a text file; I believe they were stored in the same order as the person records they were associated with so they could be matched up, s
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• UTF-32
  UTF-32 is also known as '''UCS-4'''. There may be some subtle philosophical differences between the ...that the [[Byte Order Mark]] (zero-width no-break space) U+FEFF is encoded as byte sequence 00 00 FE FF in the big-endian version and FF FE 00 00 in the
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• JHOVE
  ... an active open source project no longer backed by those institutions, and as of 2015 has become an official project of the Open Preservation Foundation. JHOVE2 was intended as a successor to JHOVE, but it does not support all the same formats, so both
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• Game cartridges
  ...g capabilities, though eventually [[CD]]s and Internet downloads took over as more common means of distributing software for them rather than cartridges.
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• ScreenWriter II
  ...pes, but sample files mentioned in the manual used a '''.text''' extension as part of their names. :'''.RM n''' Set right margin to n (as character position from the left; must be greater than left margin)
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• LBR
  ...ols for manipulating LBR files were LU.COM and NULU.COM. Other tools, such as NSWP.COM, understood both LBR and some of the closely associated compressio * .LBR format definition, Gary P. Novosielski, 1984-08-19 -- available as LUDEF5.DOC in many CP/M archives (e.g., [http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/cd
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• CFX
  ....com announcement in comp.os.cpm]). The latter version is available widely as CFX13.ZIP, in particular at: ... source code (the latter should allow compilation for other platforms such as Unix, but it's not trivial)
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• CP/M file system
  ...uld typically reside on a [[floppy disk]], or more rarely a [[hard disk]]. As such, such filesystems are also likely to reside in [[Disk Image Formats|di ... packaged for Debian and Ubuntu Linux, so installing it there is as simple as <tt>apt-get install cpmtools</tt>
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• DSK (CPCEMU)
  ....php/Format:DSK_disk_image_file_format cpcwiki.eu] -- (FIXME just the same as above, or more information?)
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• PC-Write
  ...ggested when you started the program was "WORK.DOC", suggesting '''.doc''' as the default file extension to be used, which could be confusing given MS-Wo ...ded by a control character that is entered as Alt-G in PC-Write but stored as Ctrl-K, which is officially the Vertical Tab character in ASCII.
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• DEFLATE
  '''Deflate''' (stylized as '''DEFLATE''', '''Deflate''', or '''deflate''') is a widely used lossless c There is a popular extension of Deflate known as [[zlib]] format, and the term "Deflate" often turns out to mean zlib. Forma
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• User talk:Gphemsley
  ...th Graphics and Geospatial. I have only found out how to apply Geospatial as a subcategory of Graphics. [[User:swanQ|swanQ]] ([[User talk:swanQ|talk]]) ...designed the infobox was inspired by the many infoboxes on Wikipedia, such as those used for species or languages. However, those mostly do not have to d
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• BMP
  ..., since, when loaded into memory using Windows software, the image is held as a DIB structure. ...ndard modified or compressed form of BMP/DIB, intended to be reconstructed as a DIB at runtime.
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• Talk:AMOS Music Bank
  ...eems like this fits better in the [[Music]] section along with such things as [[MIDI]] (for musical instrument control, instead of audio reproduction), r
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• DNA
  ...sions that an incorrect base manages to stick, a transcription error known as a mutation occurs, and this is how organisms evolve. ...in turn be part of any [[Electronic File Formats|electronic file format]]) as a series of trinary numbers.
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• CCITT Group 4
  ...y-used lossless compression algorithm for bitonal images. It is also known as '''T6''', '''T.6''', '''Fax4''', '''G4''', '''Group 4''', or '''ITU-T Fax G * [[ImageMagick]] (specify the file format as "GROUP4")
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• RNA
  ...hich are coded as G, A, U, and C respectively. Three of these are the same as those in DNA, but uracil (U) is used in place of the thymine (T) found in D ...y of RNA, albeit not in as complex and stable a manner as modern-day "life as we know it" which separates the functions of genetic material and protein f
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• ArcPad
  ...es a number of data formats, including raster and vector graphics, as well as [[XML]]-based data. [[VBScript]] and [[JavaScript|JScript]] scripting is al
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• TIFF/EP
  [[TIFF/EP]] (also spelled '''TIFF-EP''') is a subtype of [[TIFF]] developed as an ISO standard for electronic photography. It is standardized by ISO 12234 ...resent. However, most files containing this tag would be better identified as [[DNG]], or one of a number of other [[Cameras and Digital Image Sensors|di
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• TIFF/IT
  ... Tag image file format for image technology (TIFF/IT). TIFF/IT was revised as ISO 12639:2004, with a 2007 amendment to support [[JBIG2]] compression.
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• TGA
  The first TGA format is now known as ''Original TGA Format'', or (informally) ''TGA Version 1''. It is character
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• Optical Discs
  ... popularity at present, though physical formats in general are on the wane as a distribution format due to the widespread deployment of the high-bandwidt
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• PUID
  Example: fmt/42 which can be resolved as http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/42 to a summary page for the
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• ARC (Internet Archive)
  ...consists of a series of uncompressed files or data streams (taken directly as received from the Web or another source) combined in a single file with hea
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• Zoo
  ** As posted to Usenet comp.sources.unix 1987-08: [{{CdTextfilesURL|sourcecode/us
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• Talk:Graphics
  ...s list (http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/index.php/Graphics) JPG is listed as a BMP format. I would argue its not a bit mapped image format. Raster yes, ...as raster objects, but contained inside the file object as vector objects (as I understand it..) and I think PNG is in a similar position. Are we classif
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• Tokenized BASIC
  |caption=Sol BASIC screen shot (as simulated in Solace) ...ortant concern for slower computers (and is the reason some languages such as [[Python]] create [[bytecode]] files from the source code to help their int
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• WARC
  ...00, Information and documentation -- WARC file format. WARC was developed as an extension to ARC in part to provide better capabilities for managing Web ...nsion. In cases where the warc.gz file needs to randomly accessed (namely, as part of web archives accessible page-by-page), this will consist of one gzi
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• MrSID
  ...ech designed to enable portability of massive bit-mapped (raster) images. As of November 2012, the current ''generation'' of MrSID is Generation 4 (MG4)
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• AMOS Music Bank
  ...dentifier within AMOS Memory Bank files), and may just refer to such files as created by the Konverter software (References: [https://aminet.net/package/
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• Talk:Reality AdLib Tracker module
  ...eems like this fits better in the [[Music]] section along with such things as [[MIDI]] (for musical instrument control, instead of audio reproduction), r
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• Clay tablets
  * [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/Clay/ Clay as a digital storage medium]
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• Scrivener
  ...sion in the name. (In Mac OS X, such directories are treated by the Finder as a single file, obscuring their internal structure, but in Windows they act
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• Shapefile
  ...res (points, lines, and/or polygons) together with attribute details (such as labels and associated measurements) for the features. A shapefile is actua
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• KML
  ...nting the KML encoding. Positions are located using longitude and latitude as defined by the World Geodetic System of 1984 (WGS84). KML became an interna
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• AAS
  ...uthoring System) is an [[Interactive Fiction]] development system, created as a hoax. The GUI editor and game interpreter both run in Java. The game sour
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• GAGS
  ...teractive Fiction]] development system written by Mark J. Welch. It served as the basis for [[AGT]]. GAGS game files can be compiled by the [[AGT]] compi
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• E00
  '''E00''' is the informal name for an [[ESRI]] export format known as ArcInfo Interchange File Format or ESRI ArcInfo Export File Format. The for As of November 2012, the ArcInfo data model for which the E00 file format supp
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• HDF4
  ...on 4 of [[HDF|Hierarchical Data Format]]. HDF4 was originally known simply as HDF. When Version 5 was introduced, it was dubbed [[HDF5]] to emphasize the ... elements allowing a user to associate related objects within an HDF file. As Vgroups can contain other Vgroups, it is possible to build a hierarchical f
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• HDF5
  ...ne can create and store almost any kind of scientific data structure, such as images, arrays of vectors, and structured and unstructured grids. They can ...tml HDF5 Specification] Latest official specification from The HDF Group. As of November 2012, Version is 2.0.
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• JPX
  * The possibility to combine multiple codestreams as composites or animations ...cial filename extension is '''.jpf''', and doesn't even mention '''.jpx''' as a possibility. However, some reputable sources say that '''.jpx''' is legit
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• PCRaster Map
  ...raster.geo.uu.nl/ PCRaster home] (PCRaster software - released under GPLv3 as of version 4). * [http://www.qgis.org/ QGIS] (an open-source GIS) can read PCRaster maps as well.
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• MJ2
  ...at defined by Part 3 of the [[JPEG 2000]] standard. [[MJ2]] supports audio as well. ... File Format]]. Codestreams in Motion JPEG 2000 files are JP2 codestreams, as defined for [[JPEG 2000]].
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• Ultra Tracker
  ...s with the extension .ult. There are at least two versions of this format, as changes were made post-v1.3 of Ultra Tracker.
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• ACQ
  ... is interleaved together; in the compressed format, each channel is stored as its own array, compressed by [[zlib]].
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• DICOM
  However, as with any sufficiently-adopted standard, there are splinter factions. The mo The earliest versions of the standard were known as ACR/NEMA, after the American College of Radiology and National Electrical M
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• PHP
  PHP files are often found as text files with the extension '''.php'''. The syntax rules allow [[HTML]] c ...or '''.phps'''] is used when the developer wants the PHP file to be served as source code rather than code executed on the server, for example to share a
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• WordStar
  As with many early word processors, its files were basically plain text, with ... correctly meaning that the program couldn't interpret high-bit characters as other characters in extended character sets without a special marker).
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• Extended Module
  ...ct tracker for [[MS-DOS]]. The format is also used by other trackers, such as [[DigiTracker]] and [[MilkyTracker]]. ...documentation by Mr.H of Triton (1994), included with the FT2 distribution as "Xm.txt"]
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• LPCM
  '''LPCM''' stands for Linear Pulse Code Modulation, also referred to as Linear PCM. It is a digital audio encoding, using pulse code modulation (P
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• Genecyst Save State
  ...s9, depending on the save slot used. There are two versions of the format, as it was changed post-v0.20.
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• Talk:Saved Games
  I've been adding emulator save states here as it seems like the closest fit for them. If anyone objects or feels there's ... had a very expansionist view of what is a "file format", extending as far as documenting various notations and coding systems even when not actually in
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• MS-DOS
  ...r the hood; finally with [[Windows NT]] and later systems built on it such as [[Windows XP]] and its successors, the low-level operating system kernel wa
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• WQ1
  As of 2014, the only modern software that reads WQ1 files is Quattro Pro (part
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• WQ2
  As of 2014, the only modern software that reads WQ2 files is Quattro Pro (part
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• RIFF
  | <code>LBit</code> || [[LB]] || Also known as Low Bitrate.
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• Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis
  Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis, abbreviated as CAQDAS, denotes a type of software which is used to analyse combinations of
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• ASCII Art
  ...ontrol or escape codes. When [[ANSI escape code]]s are used, that is known as [[ANSI Art]]. ...ome up with pictures or cartoons printed entirely in text characters (such as the Snoopy picture ubiquitously found on the walls of computer centers). Th
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• ANSI Art
  ...graphics might be stored in a file format other than ANSI Art format, such as [[BIN (Binary Text)|BIN]] or [[iCEDraw]]. As far as we know, there is no formal specification of ANSI Art format. It has many v
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• AVI
  ...istries (Historic Registry)] Hosted by IANA. Implies use of video/vnd.avi as mimetype.
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• Talk:Arkos Tracker
  Format documentation is apparently available as part of the download archive - can't test this from work [[User:Halftheisla
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• User talk:Halftheisland
  ...c to the [[Audio]] and [[Music]] file types, aren't "trackers" of the sort as some you've posted more in the area of instrument control than direct stora ...Audio and Music should be merged, and then grouped into subcategories such as Musical Instrument Control and Sound Wave Storage?) [[User:Dan Tobias|Dan T
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• NII
  ...TI files can be up to 7-dimensional: the first four dimensions are defined as 3 spatial dimensions and time, with the other dimensions used for "other st
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• IMG/HDR
  The format is also known as '''Analyze 7.5'''. See also its successor, [[Analyze AVW]].
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• Shannon–Fano coding
  ... any particular algorithm, so you can often think of Shannon–Fano coding as a synonym for [[Huffman coding]]. An exception would be if a format uses ''
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• Quattro Pro
  As of 2014, the Quattro Pro formats aren't well supported. Microsoft Excel dro
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• AHX (Abyss)
  ...in modules with the extension .ahx. The module format was previously known as THX, but was changed for legal reasons.
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• CHM
  It is a compressed binary file format, including content in [[HTML]] as well as other related data. [[Microsoft Help 2]] was intended as a successor, but never saw much use.
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• Ace Film
  ... allowing graphics created using Ace Computing's applications to be stored as a series of frames in a file, to be replayed layer using the Projector appl
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• Zig Zag Ancient Greeks
  The format is laid down as follows: | 4 || General setup details such as volume,
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• CMC
  ...computers (Atari 400 / 800, Atari XL and Atari XE). It was created in 1990 as [http://atariki.krap.pl/index.php/Avalon_Music_Composer Avalon Music Compos
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• Ext:as
  : ''Information for extension '''.as''''' * [[Special:Search/as|Search for 'as' on this wiki]]
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• Apple Intermediate Codec
  ...primarily to serve as a fast editing format in video editing software such as Final Cut Pro.
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• Category:File formats with extension .arc
  '''.arc''' is best known as the extension of archive files in the format used by System Enhancement Ass
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• Category:File formats with extension .org
  ..., which is a [[DOS executable (.com)|PC/MS-DOS executable format]] as well as a domain, and .pl, which can be a [[Perl]] program or the domain code for P
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• Glossary
  ...ides the data into little pieces that can be represented numerically, such as pixels in an image. An analog signal (for instance, the music encoded in th ... having to do with file and disk management, they can do many other things as well. They can written to ask for user input and respond accordingly. Many
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• INTERCAL
  ...designed to be maximally obtuse and incomprehensible, with statements such as '''PLEASE GIVE UP''' (which terminates the program; the "PLEASE" part is op
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• TRAC programming language
  ...d up getting used for several unrelated software-related projects (as well as [http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/trac_0.pdf Truste
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• COMAL
  ...cluded, while COMAL had to be obtained separately, it never eclipsed BASIC as its creators may have intended.
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• Talk:Main Page
  I was prevented from saving the page as it included external links. I suggest you verify before replying as I believe this site is broken.
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• Euclid (Ace Computing)
  Assuming use of 2 and 8 to indicate move and draw, as in Draw paths; use of 6,
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• Hashtags, at-signs, retweets, etc.
  ...s", which have sometimes leaked into other social-networking and messaging as things posted to Twitter get re-posted to other services, or users accustom ...; [[INTERCAL]] calls it a "mesh"). The intent is to tag a tweet or message as pertaining to a particular topic to make it more easily searchable. While t
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• Ogg
  Because Ogg formats are free and open-source, not proprietary as many other formats are, they are preferred by many "free-media" projects in ...verter] (watch out for attempts to install annoying toolbars in installer, as is regretfully common these days)
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• DEM
  ...ifferent products based on 7.5-minute, 15-minute, 2-arc-second (also known as 30-minute), and 1-degree grids on the earth surface.
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• FidoNet message packet
  ...gnored in favor of reformatting the text at the recipient end) were stored as hex 8D. Linefeeds (hex 0A) might or might not follow the carriage returns (
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• Just Solve the File Format Problem talk:Community portal
  ::Seems to work now, but perhaps as a side effect, now I don't see any new changes after around 6 PM (EST) in t ...not lawyer but I don't think declaring the content here Public Domain (US) as discussed in the [[FAQ]] will have desirable consequences outside the Unite
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• WordPerfect
  ...>PerfectOffice_OBJECT</code>, whereas the real document part is now stored as stream <code>PerfectOffice_MAIN</code>. #128, #160: treat as space ' '
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• JPEG 2000
  '''JPEG 2000''' is sometimes incorrectly used as a synonym for '''JP2''', and vice versa. Although JP2 might be the most imp ...) use a concept called ''brands''. (The term ''profile'' is sometimes used as a synonym for ''brand'', but this can be confusing because ''profile'' is a
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• MATLAB script file
  ...n faster than with spreadsheets or traditional programming languages, such as C/C++ or Java™.
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• Softlib
  ...ner format for their programs and data, but not actually released directly as a published program. Some game data files used in the Gamer's Edge product ...orce particular file naming conventions), but the self-extracting version (as a .EXE file) was more commonly encountered. One distinctive feature of Soft
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• Perl
  ...lectic Rubbish Lister. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. ...ng free, open-source software in contrast to proprietary technologies such as those from Microsoft) along with [[PHP]] and [[Python]].
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• Pascal
  ...ome newer languages have, however, reintroduced some of these things, such as the "end" keyword in [[Ruby]] and [[Elixir]].
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• JavaScript
  ...ebsites, but also used in other contexts (such as server-side JavaScript). As a client-side language in a browser, JavaScript has access to a Document Ob This is not the same as [[Java]]. People constantly [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMTNIrS2X8U ge
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• Java
  ...e that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run any
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• Squash (RISC OS)
  As with a number of data formats related to filing systems on RISC OS, the loa
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• DigiBooster PRO v2.x / DigiBooster 3 module
  ...DIGI]] file format. The format is referred to on the DigiBooster 3 website as "DBM0", but it is noted that "Version 3 of DigiBooster does not introduce a
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• User talk:Bender
  : Yes they should, this info is from [[PRONOM]] as a first test. Still busy with a method to harvest wikilinks that are relate
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• SDTS
  ...tial for no information loss. The SDTS specifies exchange constructs, such as format, structure, and content, for spatially referenced vector and raster
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• Byte Order Mark
  There are two main schools of thought as to its purpose:
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• WavPack
  ...mat, WavPack is one of the compression methods permitted in [[ZIP]] files (as of ZIP spec version 6.3.2), where it is compression type 97. It's not one o
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• BagIt
  ...ile ([[Tape Archive]] + [[gzip]]). The [[Mailbag]] spec (under development as of 2021) is an extension of BagIt.
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• Kingsoft Office
  ...le formats. The program is able to load and save Microsoft documents (such as the [[DOC]] and [[DOCX]] formats), but its native format has a .wps extensi
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• MDA
  ...isplay, each pixel in this format should be treated as being twice as tall as it is wide.
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• Music notation
  ... actually "universal" because they can be tied to particular cultures just as languages are, many of these notations have wide global use. On [[paper]], ...takes you back 1,800 years: Expert records '100% accurate' version of song as heard in ancient Greece]
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• APL
  '''APL''', known best as "that programming language with all the weird symbols", was developed by Ke ...haracters. Even in modern times, when the special characters are available as part of the Unicode set, actually typing them can be difficult without a sp
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• APL code page
  ... newer ASCII- or [[Unicode]]-based sets generally have lowercase available as well, among other characters not part of "purist" APL. ...rnally to APL, characters are assigned code positions within what is known as the "Atomic Vector" (⎕IO), which can differ between systems; one such cha
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• BWF
  ... (or '''Broadcast WAVE''', '''BWAVE''') is used for broadcast exchange and as an archival format for first-generation (master) audio files. [[BWF]] exte
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• Web browser files
  ...ored by the browser when sent from sites you visit. Some of these are kept as permanent settings, while others are temporary and go away eventually. * [[AOL Personal Filing Cabinet]] (includes bookmarks/favorites as well as email)
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• NES Sound Format Extended
  ...ular [[NES Sound Format|NSF]] file plus a wrapper containing metadata such as track names and track timings.
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• Digital Illusions
  ... Commodore Amiga games - "Pinball Dreams" and "Pinball Fantasies", as well as the Amiga CD32 version of "Pinball Fantasies"
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• C0 controls
  ...rs (code positions 0-31 decimal) which are part of the [[ASCII]] standard (as adopted in 1967; the earlier 1963 version had somewhat different control ch ...g" them using standard output methods, which causes them to be interpreted as control characters and activate non-graphical functionality.
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• UTF-16
  ...first code unit. Add the 10 least significant bits to 0xdc00, and use that as the second code unit. ...or UTF-16LE). A file encoded in "UTF-16" may use a BOM, but a file labeled as "UTF-16BE" or "UTF-16LE" should not use a BOM.
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• DVD
  ...tary Stream]] packets containing the data (including subsidiary items such as subtitles). ...Video|video formats]] (download or streaming) are increasing in popularity as a competitor to physical media.
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• User talk:Dan Tobias
  ... Style Sheets, and a Content Scramble System article created, with [[CSS]] as a disambig article linking to both. But in that case, any specific links to ...lar than not. I'm willing to move stuff over if you define the category. As you mentioned on [[Talk:Text-based data]], 'Categorization is getting pret
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• VCard
  ...ased persons aren't very useful) and perhaps be used for other things such as [[Bibliographic data|bibliography]] and [[Genealogical data|genealogy]] whe ...p=BCGroup_Business&barcode=QRCode_Business_vCard Encode VCard contact data as QR bar code]
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• Talk:RAW (Audio)
  I added .bin as an extension. redump.org, for example, uses that. [[User:Tungol|Tungol]] ([
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• MultiMate Professional Word Processor
  ...for internal use at an insurance company in the early 1980s, then released as a commercial software package mostly marketed to corporations rather than i
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• Dual Module Player DSMI
  ... [[MS-DOS]]. The number of features supported by the format grew over time as DMP began to support more module formats. There are five official versions
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• Wang OIS
  ...ile formats and other tech specs were closely-guarded proprietary secrets, as Wang didn't want third-party developers interoperating with their devices a
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• Wang 1200
  ... earlier parts of the document, unless you read the entire tape and edited as you transfered it to another tape (which required two tape drives). There w
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• X.509 certificate
  ...endor's certificate file on your system in order to send transactions such as credit card sales to be processed. ....509 certificate may be stored in a number of different file formats, such as:
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• Art of Noise module
  '''.aon''' files are modules produced by the Art of Noise tracker (also known as "Chorus") for the Commodore Amiga.
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• MINC
  <!--Factors that can help identify a candidate file as of this format. Include magic numbers, signatures etc if available. Eg: -->
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• PageMagic
  .... NEBS software based PageMagic off of [[Timeworks Publisher]] (also known as Publish It!) who went bankrupt in 1994.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?
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• Timeworks Publisher
  ... originally by GST in the U.K. It used the extension .dtp, rebranded later as Pressworks & [[PageMagic]] by NEBS, all using the same engine developed by ...lish-it for DOS. In early 1994, GST rebranded its DTP software for Windows as Pressworks. These were superseded in July 1996 by upgrades to Pressworks 2,
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• Gramophone record
  ..., records were in turn replaced by [[CD]]s in the late part of the century as the mainstream music medium, though a niche market persists. ... record speed, some children's records were released at that speed as late as the 1970s. Yet another record speed, 16 RPM, was supported by some record p
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• QR code
  ...rious patents covering the technology, but allows free use of them as long as the standards are followed. They run the official QR Code website. ...e-backed-up-as.html QRBackup.sh- How to encode and decode a file backed up as a series of printed QR codes] ([https://gist.github.com/GrantTrebbin/0c6aad
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• UPC-A
  ...nd of that decade. They are still in heavy use, though experts regard them as obsolete compared to newer bar code technologies which can encode larger am ... products sold outside the United States, and is used for some things such as books and medicines in the U.S. The 12-digit UPC is used on other US produc
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• Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format
  ...ttachments and rich text, instead of more standards-compliant methods such as [[MIME]]. ...t have been devised to help non-MS-ers cope with it). When saved elsewhere as archives or samples, sometimes the .tnef file extension is used.
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• Phonograph cylinder
  ...ich ended with the discs winning out. These (as well as other formats such as the [[dictabelt]]) consist of a groove representing analog audio, played by As the contents of most phonograph cylinders had been believed to be in the pu
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• XLS
  ...[XLSX]] as their native format, though they still support the older format as well. Excel stores date values as floating point numbers that represent the number of days since a given star
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• H.264
  ...of file formats that use a particular standard for encoding or compression as a part of their format. ...tables other than direct download from Cisco. Thus, the only way to use it as part of a product without additional license fees is to have the product's
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• RealMedia
  ...erms ''RealVideo'' and ''RealAudio'' can also encompass other things, such as codecs, and the older [[RealAudio]] format.
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• RealAudio
  ... formats, and related technologies, developed by RealNetworks, Inc. (known as Progressive Networks until 1997).
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• C1 controls
  ...standards, making it unsafe for software to even attempt to interpret them as control characters even though that is what the standards technically say t Other alternative C1 controls have been used in some applications, such as [https://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/iso-ir/056.pdf UK videotex (1982)].
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• Multics
  [[Unix]] is sometimes believed to have been named as a pun on Multics.
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• MPEG-4
  ...dia formats. It is developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group, codified as ISO/IEC 14496. Saying just what the "MPEG-4 file format" is, is a somewhat
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• Visual Studio PDB
  ... environment, and contain debugging information for the compiled binaries. As of 2015, Microsoft has finally begun to document this format.
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• Compression
  ...er data structures to compress data, as well as in network protocols, such as http. Used stand-alone, a stream compression format does not offer archivin (excluding formats usually used as file formats)
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• Libwww-perl cookie jar
  ... when they are given by sites which are accessed, so they can be sent back as needed in further web accesses.
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• Firefox cookie database
  As of Firefox 104 (released 2022-08-23), the '''cookies.sqlite''' schema is:
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• Netscape bookmarks
  ...bookmark structure. Specific items changed over time in different versions as new features were added, but the basic structure remained similar to allow
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• Column Delimited
  Unlike other data formats such as [[CSV]] which use a delimiter to separate fields, column delimited files ha
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• Chrome bookmarks
  ...e", and "url". The "id" values are numeric, probably assigned sequentially as bookmarks are added. ...k conventions appropriate to those systems. Non-ASCII characters are given as escape sequences like '''\u00ED''', representing the [[Unicode]] character
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• Internet Shortcut
  '''Internet Shortcut''' files are used by Windows to save web addresses as files or desktop icons which can be clicked on to launch your default web b
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• Date and time formats
  ...are now some well-documented ways of expressing this information. However, as some wag said, "The great thing about standards is that there are so many t ...er other countries had switched to the Gregorian calendar, so that as late as the 1920s the current date differed depending on what country you were in.
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• Firefox bookmarks
  ...[Netscape bookmarks]] format, as did the Mozilla/Seamonkey Suite. However, as of Firefox 3.0, a new format was used based on [[SQLite]] with write-ahead
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• Lynx bookmarks
  The format is [[HTML]], with no DOCTYPE. It's invalid HTML, as it has an unclosed &lt;ol&gt; tag. New bookmarks are appended to the end of
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• Mosaic hotlists
  ...an read and write Mosaic hotlists (if you set its configuration to use one as its bookmark file) in addition to [[Lynx bookmarks|its own native format]].
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• PageMaker
  '''PageMaker''' was the program that launched desktop publishing as a popular function of computers in the 1980s. First released for the Mac, a ...e previous format wrapped in the OLE container. Same identification method as versions 4 & 5. With version 6.5 & 7 you will see "{{magic|32 06}}" or "{{m
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• Dublin Core
  ...t of metadata fields to give information about resources. Its uses include as meta tags in [[HTML]] to identify web documents, but there is also an [[XML
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• Softdisk Text Compressor
  ...iskmagazines in the 1990s. It was not released to the public, but was used as an internal utility to prepare text files for publication, with the decompr ...cial character to be treated literally, or a signal to repeat a character, as shown below.
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• Softdisk PC
  ...k PC''''' was a diskmagazine of the 1980s and 1990s, which started in 1986 as ''Big Blue Disk'' and later became ''On Disk Monthly'' before settling into ... and clobbered it, which could interfere with the functioning of an issue (as it would then be unable to determine that the correct disk was inserted).
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• COBOL
  ...s-Oriented Language) dates back to the 1950s, and started to be thought of as clunky and archaic by many programmers not long after that. Nevertheless, i
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• BASIC
  |caption=Sol BASIC screen shot (as simulated in Solace) ...urpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was created in 1964 at Dartmouth College as a programming language designed to be easy for novices to learn. Some of th
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• RPG
  ...e (such as a list of transactions) and perform some operation on them such as adding them up or outputting them in a report. An unusual quirk of its synt
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• Category:File formats with extension .com
  ...lso a top-level domain... like .org, which is an [[Org-mode]] file as well as a domain, and .pl, which can be a [[Perl]] program or the domain code for P
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• Crunch
  ...xtension with Z (.?Z?), with the extension .ZZZ used for corner cases such as a blank extension. Note that, as explained in the format documentation, the "filename" field contains not on
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• Hindu-Arabic numerals
  ...ves) to the western world, where it supplanted earlier number systems such as [[Roman numerals]]. ... in other words, the digits are multiplied by powers of ten. This is known as "base ten" (presumably chosen in ancient times due to humans normally havin
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• Roman numerals
  ...re introduced to the West), and continue to be seen in various places such as copyright notices and Super Bowl numbers where they're considered to have m ... as V, since those letters were equivalent in Roman times. (W should count as two Vs, equal to X in numbering, since that is the origin of the letter.) I
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• LISP
  ...all capitals due to its acronymic origins, it's now more typically written as a normal proper name, "Lisp". ...nd later led to the "Common LISP" variant of LISP.) LISP treats everything as a list which can be manipulated by its operators, including LISP commands t
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• Indeo
  ...os Indeo Codecs. The Indeo Codecs include Indeo Video version 5.2, as well as support for the older Indeo Video 4.5 and Indeo Audio 2.5 codecs (the 3.x v
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• Parchment
  '''[[Parchment]]''' was used like [[paper]] as a medium for [[Written Languages]], but was made of animal hides (limed, no
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• Papyrus
  ...reds of years ago, but some of it is made in Egypt now to sell to tourists as a souvenir.
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• Stone carving
  ...one." Conversely, carving things in stone has been used throughout history as a sign of permanence, along with dignity and importance. This goes back to,
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• Read Only Memory
  ...her programs are not on ROM, allowing them to be updated with new versions as they are released, but a "boot loader" needs to be in ROM to tell the compu
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• 35 mm slides
  '''35 mm slides''' came on film rolls of the same size and shape as [[35 mm negatives]], designed to fit the same cameras, but the pictures on
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• Patents
  ...encouraging inventions to be documented publicly instead of being withheld as trade secrets, and once the patent expires the idea is in the public domain Patents sometimes have an impact on file formats of all sorts, as something that was believed to be free and open turns out to have a patent
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• Amiga Module
  ...n IFF FORM MODL format that's apparently used in ProTracker 3.01b, as well as an IFF FORM TRKR format. Perhaps these are related?
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• ICO
  ... the value of this field, which is what the file type in question is known as to Windows.
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• Favicon
  ...icon), while other browsers are in general more open to other options such as the use of different graphic formats. ...evices attempt to find them. The webmaster can specify alternate locations as with the favicon:
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• Robots Exclusion Standard
  ... so its use is limited to giving instruction to the reasonable robots such as Googlebot. It does, however, cause the effective "retroactive" removal of a ...he character. Lines with nothing but a comment are ignored, so don't count as blank lines for the purpose of ending a section of the file.
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• Talk:Codisk Audio File
  ...es use of Terminate and Stay Resident executables for different tasks such as displaying the time and updating the playlist. ...r it? That just means "generic binary". It's what lots of files get served as if the server doesn't know a more specific type for them. [[User:Dan Tobias
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• Web server files
  ...ile", this category is specifically for files particular to a server, such as the configuration files that set particular options for a server or the sit
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• Temporary files
  ...ndows directory. However, temporary files might be created in other places as well. ...p''' extension, as well as various extensions with special characters such as $ and _ which rarely occur in file extensions otherwise, might be used for
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• Category:Temporary files
  : '''Temporary files are used by applications for different purposes, such as saving state or caching.'''
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• DOS executable (.com)
  ...S family of operating systems; [[MS-DOS]] 1.0 introduced [[MS-DOS EXE|MZ]] as a replacement. COM files are raw, flat binaries without relocations; there
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• Crunch/LZDEF20.DOC
  ...s/oak.oakland.edu/pub/sigm/vol294/crunch20.lbr CRUNCH20.LBR CRUNCH20.LBR] (as LZDEF20.DZC -- yes, crunched): tively. This identifies the file as "crunched".
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• Squeeze
  ...OO.TXT became FOO.TQT), with the extension .QQQ used for corner cases such as a blank extension. Some software for other platforms (e.g. squprt33.ark) ap ...n use in the early 1980s before [[ARC (compression format)|ARC]] caught on as the dominant archiver.
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• CrLZH
  ...ised by Roger Warren and used on [[CP/M]]. The format is often referred to as just '''LZH''', but it's not to be confused with the format used for [[LHA| ...d better compression than those formats. LZH files occurred standalone and as members in [[LBR]] archives. The underlying compression is based on that us
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• CrLZH/LZHREL.DOC
  ...formation about interfacing with a library file -- scroll down), extracted as LZHREL.DYC from [http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/cpm/mirrors/oak.oakl UNLZH has 2 entry points, to be used as the programmer needs:
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• Talk:DOS executable (.com)
  ...is unknown what segment a given COM file will be loaded into, it IS known (as specified) that it will be loaded from offset 0x100 into that segment. So i :: There seems not to exist such thing as compressed executable COM file, after an extensive search on the Google. Be
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• Talk:FastTracker module
  I looked over the article, and it seems that what you describe as "clones of FastTracker modules" are, in fact, actually MOD modules (i.e. So
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• TI-59 magnetic card
  ...llowed by 2-digit memory location, stored in 1 item; uses contents of that as memory location to finally access)
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• Programmable calculators
  ...ming by the addition of some special operators for program constructs such as labels, branching, and input/output.
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• Votomatic card
  ...s at the appropriate position would cause the central chip of paper (known as a "chad") to fall out, leaving a hole which could be read by a tabulating m
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• Optical mark recognition
  ...ate data provided by individual participants. It is sometimes referred to as "mark sense", but this more properly refers to [[Mark Sense cards]] which t ...tronically-sensed cards which required it, but some newer sensing systems (as on election ballots) use felt-tip markers instead; in general, more modern
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• Mark Sense card
  ...s the marks optically. The latter is sometimes referred to as "mark sense" as well, though this term officially refers to the electrically-read variety. Cards or forms filled out this way can be read by humans as well as machines, if it is known what the meanings of particular spots on the form
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• Capacitance Electronic Disc
  ...wn as VHD - and possibly two, as there is some reference to a format known as "Fonica" (see the Total Rewind reference for more).
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• BinHex
  '''BinHex''' is a family of formats used as binary-to-text transfer encodings and/or archive formats (to combine data a ...naries on that service. Macintosh users had the same problem with binaries as TRS-80 users did, so William Davis created a ported Mac version of BinHex i
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• OVF (Open Virtualization Format)
  ...ckaged virtual machine; it contains the metadata for the OVF package, such as name, hardware requirements, references to the other files in the OVF packa
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• General Digital Music module
  ...ell as being somewhat popular in the mid-90s demoscene, BWSB was also used as the sound library for the game creation system [[MegaZeux]] from v2.50 unti
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• Imago Orpheus module
  ...cker for [[MS-DOS]]. Orpheus was developed by Lutz Roeder in the early 90s as part of Project IMAGO, with the aim of producing soundtracks for videogames
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• Talk:Imago Orpheus module
  ...P3]]. Noting this here to cover all bases - it's going in my personal todo as well. [[User:Halftheisland|Halftheisland]] ([[User talk:Halftheisland|talk]
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• Base64
  The data is encoded as a sequence of base-64 digits, consisting of a character from a set of 64 ch ...oup of three bytes as a number ([[Endianness|big-endian]]), and express it as four digits in the base-64 system. The padding character = is used to fill
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• Quoted-printable
  ...ostly used for text files (which might be in any number of encodings, such as [[UTF-8]] or [[ISO 8859-1]]). ...n the original document for a purpose other than normal line breaks (e.g., as part of a binary file).
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• Talk:Jason Page
  This is just a quick start as I have very little time - I'll dig into the format docs this week and hopef
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• Category:Operating Systems
  ...le OS-like categories should instead have [[:Category:Computer platforms]] as a parent category.]''
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• QuickTime
  The QuickTime format was used as the basis for the international standard [[MPEG-4]] format. The current version of classic QuickTime is 7.7.9 as of 2016.
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• Torrent file
  ...h an ever-changing set of nodes that appear and disappear minute-to-minute as different users start and stop copies of a BitTorrent client. Special nodes ...to ban it altogether. However, it has many perfectly legitimate uses, such as in the distribution of free, open-source software and public-domain materia
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• Bencode
  * Strings: coded as a decimal number giving the length of the string, then a colon, then the st * Integers: coded as the letter "i", then the integer (as a series of decimal digits), then the letter "e"' e.g., '''i42e'''
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• Objective-C
  ...dard library (unlike C), but uses various system-specific frameworks (such as Apple's Cocoa). ...uage for [[iOS]] development as well, until [[Swift]] was released in 2014 as a new iOS/OS X language.
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• C
  ...ng languages including [[Java]] and [[Perl]]. Such syntactic elements of C as the use of curly braces to surround program code blocks and the use of a si ...n Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, published in 1978 and known to programmers as "K&amp;R".
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• Waveform Archiver
  A WA file seems to be structured as a sequence of "member files", each of which begins with these fields:
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• DVDisaster Error Correction File
  ...ore the error correction file on the disc itself; otherwise, it is created as a separate file. The correctness of the disc image can be verified by gener
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• UltraEdit project file
  ...of the file pick lists, but is automatically created in the same directory as the .prj file, and which appears to be where most of the "action" takes pla ...MPUTERNAME-username.pui''', where COMPUTERNAME is the name of the computer as configured in the operating system, and username is the currently logged-in
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• Ken's Adlib Music
  ...es rips of the original songs and versions converted into [[OGG]], as well as the canonical song titles (contributed by Ken Silverman himself)
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• APL workspace
  ...and transferred in order for APL programs to be used or developed, serving as an encapsulated app and dataset for end-users and a project file for develo ...d or write data files, and the pragmatic necessity of system commands such as ")LOAD" and ")SAVE" for loading and saving workspaces (to/from a computer f
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• IBM card
  ...IBM card''' (originally produced by IBM, but later made by other companies as well) was a very common format of [[punched card]] for many years. Introduc ...ole, representing the digits 0 through 9 and two "zone punches" designated as X and Y or 11 and 12. (The top position was Y or 12, with X or 11 one posit
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• IBM 96-column card
  ...ed in places the older cards wouldn't fit, and turned up in such locations as tucked inside library books to note the due date, so that on checkin a card
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• UNIVAC 90-column card
  ...owerful computer! (A similar naming scheme in reverse resulted in [[Unix]] as wordplay on the [[Multics]] operating system.) ...descendant company Unisys infamous for aggressively enforcing patents such as the [[LZW]] patent which encumbered the [[GIF]] image format in the 1990s a
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• Aiee!
  Aiee! files have '''&lt;adventure&gt;''' as their top-level element and have '''&lt;item&gt;''' and '''&lt;room&gt;'''
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• Liquid Tracker module
  '''.liq''' files are modules created by Liquid Tracker for [[MS-DOS]]. As with [[Liquid Digitized Sample]], the format may be freely used by any prog
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• Mozilla Archive
  ... files with some header information preceding them. No compression is done as part of this format, though the Mozilla update files which are sent in this
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• FidoNet nodediff
  ... day number within the year (001-366). Compressed versions use A, Z, etc., as the first letter of the extension to note compression method: "A" for [[ARC A nodediff processor reads the lines of the nodediff one at a time, and (as called for by the commands in the nodediff) reads also through the previous
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• Bsdiff
  ...urce utility for generating diffs of binary files which can be distributed as patches or updates without having to send the entire set of binary data eac
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• Twitter
  ... rolling out] a feature to permit users to save their entire tweet history as an archive file. ...nsfer Project] is building a project for moving data between services such as this one.
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• Common Log Format
  * RFC 1413 identity of client; this is noted by Apache as unreliable, and is usually blank (represented by a hyphen (-) in the file).
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• Combined Log Format
  * RFC 1413 identity of client; this is noted by Apache as unreliable, and is usually blank (represented by a hyphen (-) in the file).
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• KSS
  .../20080103011015/http://home.hccnet.nl/c.v.walta/docs/faq.html KSS Kingdom (as of 2008-01-03)]
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• Open Web App Manifest
  ... granting the "app" permission to access things on the user's device (such as contact lists) if it is properly installed, and giving it an icon which can
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• CDMA phone data
  ...and other manufacturers. It has a [[filesystem]] used to store such things as contacts, calendars, and ringtones.
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• SIM contact data
  ...ard and the other contact storage of the various phone models, can be used as a way to transfer the list of names and numbers from one phone to another.
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• SIM card
  ... by the carrier and unchangeable thereafter, while some other things (such as the contacts) are user-modifiable and may be inserted, changed, and deleted
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• Disk Archiver
  ...rmat used in Unix-style operating systems. It supports compression as well as multiple-file archiving, and can split archives across multiple disks, amon
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• Nerdtracker II module
  As well as loading and saving files in its native NED format, Nerdtracker II offers th
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• CHDK raw
  The CHDK wiki points to this thread as the reference on working with RAW files from CHDK-enabled cameras: [http://
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• 8-Track
  ... 1980s. However, after it had faded out as a consumer format, a form known as the [[Jingle Card Cassette]] remained in use for years in the radio industr There was also some use of 8-track tapes as a data storage medium, as with the original Compucolor computer (though the later and more popular Co
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• Hard disk
  ...ferent computers). Old-time computerists sometimes referred to hard disks as "Winchesters" after the code name of one version of them at IBM. ... permanently installing it in the computer; it allows drives to be treated as external USB drives.
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• Currency
  ....org/files/distributed-currency.pdf Proposal for a 'distributed' currency (as a Bitcoin replacement)] ...tcoin-clone-as-official-currency.html Native Americans adopt bitcoin clone as official currency]
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• Bitcoin
  ...the "Block Explorer" site are displayed in a [[JSON]]-based format (served as ''text/plain''). ... unit of 1/1000 of a bitcoin (known as an mbit, or embit, or mBTC) emerged as rising prices made the bitcoin itself unwieldily large.
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• PAQ
  The author of PAQ (Matt Mahoney) also created [[BARF]] as a sort of ''reducio ad absurdum'' of file compression techniques.
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• BARF
  ...on for the targeted test suite, some compression for much other data, and (as with all single compression algorithms), some files that actually expand in ...ted due to the meta-algorithm of picking only the smallest size.) This is, as you can see, guaranteed to produce a file less than or equal to the size of
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• Talk:Piston Collage song
  I read that name as "Piston College" at first... maybe some institute of higher education in th
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• KGB Archiver
  * As per source code's "compress.cpp" for version 2 beta 2 from 2007-10-03 an ar * As per "compress.cpp" for version 1.2.1.24 from 2008-02-09 an archive starts w
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• GW-BASIC tokenized file
  ...t, and went by a few manufacturer-specific names but was generically known as GW-BASIC (with varying claims existing about what the GW stands for, either ...ndianness|little-endian]] integer and two bytes containing the line number as a little-endian integer.
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• Organya
  ...at used in Cave Story, created by the Japanese programmer "Pixel". As well as being used in the original game, there is a large and active Cave Story fan ...2683/ Orgs in Java] contains notes on the '''.org''' format specs, as well as the source code for a Java Organya player.
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• Commodore BASIC tokenized file
  ... Very few spaces were actually necessary; '''FORI=1TO10''' worked the same as '''FOR I = 1 TO 10'''. BASIC programs were stored by Commodore DOS as file type "PRG" (program), in which the first two bytes stored the memory l
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• Tap file
  ...ssette pulses (which might be saved into an application-specific file such as a [[Commodore 64 binary executable]] or a [[Commodore BASIC tokenized file] ...erval between two successive negative edges of the square wave), expressed as the number of microseconds multiplied by 0.123156, rounded to an integer va
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• Category:Commodore computers
  Category containing things having to do with Commodore systems, such as the PET, Vic-20, 64, and 128.
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• BBC BASIC tokenized file
  ...n all home microcomputers produced by Acorn Computers. Programs are stored as a series of tokens - in memory these begin at the address specified by PAGE
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• Commodore 1541 disk
  ...luding a Block Allocation Map (BAM). Custom disk formats could use as many as 40 tracks (the higher tracks were skipped in the standard format due to low ... as an upgrade to the 2040) used with PET computers was basically the same as this, enough so that those disks could generally be read with the later dri
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• Property List/XML
  ...t resembled programming-language syntax rather than markup-language syntax as is used with XML.
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• Apple Integer BASIC tokenized file
  ...ger BASIC''', created by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, was first created as Apple I BASIC, for the Apple I hobbyist computer which was the first produc ..., in files which were designated in [[Apple II DOS|Apple DOS]] directories as type "I".
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• Applesoft BASIC tokenized file
  There were some notorious bugs in Applesoft, such as an implementation of '''ONERR GOTO''' which messed up the program stack, re ..., in files which were designated in [[Apple II DOS|Apple DOS]] directories as type "A".
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• Atari BASIC tokenized file
  ...have to convert from text form. The rest of the line, as in Tiny, was left as the original text. ...Atari BASIC files are completely binary. The only thing that could be read as-is were string literals. String constants were marked by the byte 0F (hex),
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• MBASIC tokenized file
  ...e various BASICs descended from that starting point were generically known as BASIC-80, and had varying degrees of similarity.
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• KIM-1 data cassette
  ...board computer of the mid-1970s. It used audio cassettes for data storage, as did a number of computers of that era before disk drives became more afford
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• Tiny BASIC tokenized file
  ...hough its scope soon expanded to other programming topics, and it survives as a web-based publication to this day. Tiny BASIC interpretation made use of
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• Compucolor character set
  ...ompucolor II, released in 1978. They had an earlier model, variously known as the Compucolor 8001 or Compucolor I, in 1976, and before that the Intecolor ... "G" key on the keyboard), but most having platform-specific meanings such as changing the color of text. Still more control functions were accessed by e
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• Compucolor II disk
  ... disk-based systems as the earlier tape-based ones, so it treated the disk as if it were a tape, moving all subsequent files backward to fill the space w
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• Compucolor BASIC tokenized file
  ...S extension. The BASIC language was an adapted version of Microsoft BASIC (as was true of many BASICs of the time). ... (See articles on other [[tokenized BASIC]]s for more details.) Some clues as to the possible token values can be seen in the April 1979 newsletter for C
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• IBM 5100
  ...ally model 5150, so it was apparently regarded as being in "the same vein" as the 5100 in some way. The 5100 (as well as a later version, the 5110) was available in models that supported the [[BAS
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• Palm OS Database
  ...n files containing data exported from a Palm device to another system such as a PC. ...ns with a 6-byte header. If you prefer, you can think of these two headers as one 78-byte header.
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• ISO 8859-15
  ...nor variant on [[ISO 8859-1]], intended as a replacement for that encoding as a standard for use in most Western countries. A few lesser-used characters
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• Kansas City Standard data cassette
  ...n "sound sheet" that could be bound into a magazine, sometimes referred to as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_standard#Floppy_ROM "Floppy RO
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• The Electric Pencil
  ... in many different versions for various 8080 and Z-80-based computers such as the SOL-20, North Star Horizon, and TRS-80. Eventually, in 1983, an IBM PC ...ut it eventually adapted to those newfangled "[[Floppy disk|disk drives]]" as they began to appear.
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• Software Music Synthesis System
  ...e on various 8080 or Z-80 platforms under the then-popular S-100 bus, such as the SOL-20. Its accompanying software worked under various cassette and dis
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• Sol BASIC tokenized file
  |caption=Sol BASIC screen shot (as simulated in Solace) ... you could add a parameter to the SAVE command to make it save the program as plain text, which was more suitable for transfer to other systems. However,
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• Internet Archive metadata
  '''addeddate''': Date it was added (in this case the same as the public date, and a few seconds before the timestamp in the first file a
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• Telephony
  ...ttp://boingboing.net/2013/01/08/fences-as-primitive-phone-netw.html Fences as primitive phone networks] ...cle/52482/telecommunications-1990s-according-1969 1990s telecommunications as predicted in 1969]
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• Telephone numbering
  ...e assigned at the local-exchange level and might be as small as one digit (as in the child's rhyme, "Hello operator, get me number nine"). Then direct-di ... to place the call, so you can use international-standard-written numbers "as is".)
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• Thumb drive
  ...size (smaller than a floppy disk or CD) and high storage capacity (as much as [http://www.kingston.com/us/company/press/article/6487 a terabyte] now). Th ...sts, it is possible to create "hacked" drives which do unusual things such as wipe themselves out if unwanted data retrieval events take place. Such tech
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• ChordML
  ...r Windows). Presumably dedicated [[HTML]] or [[XML]] editors would be just as capable and may offer additional useful features (auto-indentation, etc.).
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• Epic Megagames MASI
  Epic Megagames MASI - also known as ProTracker Studio Module although, confusingly, ProTracker was probably not
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• Ada
  ...ramming projects. It was named after Lady Ada Lovelace, sometimes regarded as the first programmer due to her work with Charles Babbage in the 1800s. "Te
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• XZ
  ... end with footer "magic bytes" of 59 5A. (The ending bytes can be verified as a sign that the file has not been truncated in transmission.)
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• URL shorteners
  ... space (e.g., a [[Twitter]] tweet or a line of an e-mail message), as well as for link tracking by marketers. Due to the tracking functions built into so ... continued life of the service on which the redirection is hosted, as well as the specific data record for the individual shortened URL involved. These h
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• ITunes Music Library
  ..., etc., which are part of a user's collection. This includes metadata such as artists and titles, dates of when each track was added to the collection an ... will be immediately written to both versions of the library file, as well as to the song file itself if it is in a format that supports embedded metadat
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• Scream Tracker 1 & 2 module
  ...racker 2 module format (the Modland FTP also categorises .stm files solely as Scream Tracker 2 modules).
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• Prolog
  ...ngs the programmer wants, but expressed in the form of a logical statement as demanded by Prolog. This can start seeming to the programmer like a kind of ...log", which was actually developed by a Danish company which now offers it as Visual Prolog.
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• Logo
  ...s a fully-functional programming language able to do other operations such as math without necessarily involving any turtles.
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• SNOBOL
  ... until much later, when regular expressions were built into such languages as [[Perl]]. Even then, it took a while for regular-expression capabilities to
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• (Super) Studio Session song
  ...ed in 1986 by Bogas Productions. When the program hit v2.1, it was renamed as Super Studio Session. ...Super Studio Session's use of digitized instruments. Both formats, as well as the instrument format, are described in the linked format spec.
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• RobotWar
  ... educational computer network in the 1970s, then released by Muse Software as a commercial product for the Apple II platform in 1981. It had a programmin
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• PL/I
  ...age One) is a programming language developed by IBM in the 1960s, intended as the primary language for programming IBM's mainframe computers. Given that
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• Audacity Project Format
  ...ated to an Audacity project - tracks, clips, envelope points, etc. As well as the '''.aup''' file, Audacity also stores a number of '''.au''' (lossless, ...is no longer supported - the official manual suggests exporting each track as a [[WAV]] file using the appropriate legacy version. The second is created
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• HMI
  ... branching. It was used by Human Machine Interfaces Sound Operating System as the MIDI system and is used in several PC games including The Elder Scrolls ....htm The Human Machine Interfaces developer page] (Wayback Machine capture as of 1997-02-25)
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• Extensible Music Format
  * Type 1: As Type 0, but the MIDI data cannot be streamed ...nd can use Mobile Phone Control messages to control non-audio devices such as LEDs
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• Matroska Audio
  ...e or more audio files compressed with one of the supported codecs. As well as the compressed audio, a Matroska Audio file might also contain embedded lyr
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