ZIM

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File Format
Name ZIM
Ontology
Extension(s) .zim

ZIM is a file format for storing complete dumps of wikis so that they are usable for offline reading, with the entire contents contained in a single, relatively compact file. It is based on the older Zeno format which is no longer in use.

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The first four bytes are (hex) 5a 49 4d 04, which represents the long integer "magic number" 72173914 (decimal) in little-endian form. The first three bytes also spell "ZIM" in ASCII. The two bytes after the first four represent the major and minor version numbers of the file format version.

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