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IFF

2012-12-03T09:48:42Z

Chronomex: /* Overview */ add Erlang

{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Graphics
|extensions={{ext|iff}}
}}

==Overview==
'''IFF''' (Interchange File Format) is a file format introduced by Electronic Arts on the Commodore Amiga computer. Its structure is similar to [[RIFF]] or [[PNG]], using various self-contained chunks to contain different data.

Although ''IFF'' is most commonly used as an image format (using the file extension <code>.iff</code>), it can actually hold a lot of different data types. Some examples of IFF files are
*[[LBM]] images
*[[XMI]] XMidi music files
*[[8-Bit Sampled Voice|8SVX]] audio sample data
* Erlang BEAM compiled modules [http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/beam_lib.html]

==Resources==
* [http://www.martinreddy.net/gfx/2d/IFF.txt The original EA spec]
* [http://wiki.amigaos.net/index.php/IFF_FORM_and_Chunk_Registry IFF chunk registry], defining all known chunks
* ReWiki has a [http://rewiki.regengedanken.de/wiki/.IFF page] on IFF, including some details on the rare PBM variant of LBM

Just Solve the File Format Problem:Community portal

2012-11-17T05:36:38Z

Chronomex: /* Harvesting resources */

: ''please add your signature by typing <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> if you add or reply
= Issues =

Below is a list of "issues" which would ordinarily be in a ticketing system of some kind, but are here on the Wiki instead, because that's how we roll. When things are resolved feel free to remove or strike out the issue.

=== Time zone setting ===

OK, to get this community portal going... is this the place to report issues with the wiki server configuration? Anyway, its time-zone setting seems to be a bit odd. It's set (apparently) to UTC + 4 hours (somewhere in Asia?), but it thinks it's in UTC, so if you set up your user configuration to adjust it to your local time zone, it ends up 4 hours off. I had to use "-08:00" to get my current EDT time. (That will change by one hour in a week or two when Daylight Saving Time ends.) [[User:Dan Tobias|Dan Tobias]] ([[User talk:Dan Tobias|talk]]) 22:23, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

=== index.php ===

The Wiki is obviously working (yay), but it would be nice if the MediaWiki .htaccess file was [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache adjusted] so that the index.php disappears from wiki URLs.

=== Licensing ===

I'm 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 United States. It's been my experience working with datasets published by the US federal government that people outside the US are uncertain about whether or not they can use the data. I think using CC0 would be preferable to just saying Public Domain, if you really want to encourage reuse. [[User:Edsu|Edsu]] ([[User talk:Edsu|talk]]) 14:26, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

=== Using templates ===

I'm a newbie with Mediawiki. Could someone add a quick help note about using the templates for this site?
--[[User:Phillipkent|Phillipkent]] ([[User talk:Phillipkent|talk]]) 14:34, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
: Mediawiki site has extensive info about that: http://www.mediawiki.org/ [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 23:03, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

=== Using bots ===
I am working on a bot that hoovers all file format extensions and have it create pages for them in the "ext" namespace. More bots are welcome for gardening, any ideas??? Also see http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/api.php for inspiration [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 22:51, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
:How do you figure out what in a page is a file extension? Does an infobox have to be filled in correctly? [[User:Dan Tobias|Dan Tobias]] ([[User talk:Dan Tobias|talk]]) 23:29, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
:: If the template formatinfo is filled in correctly, the bot uses that, otherwise text is parsed with regex. Pronom signature files are parsed locally to check if the extension is known. That is my plan for version 0.0001 [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 23:36, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
::: [[Template:FormatInfo]] for people unfamiliar with this template [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 23:48, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
:So I assume the articles themselves should not be the file extension but some more descriptive string? Like [[Adobe Photoshop]] instead of [[PSD]], or [[ScreamTracker 3]] instead of [[S3M]]? --[[User:Darkstar|Darkstar]] ([[User talk:Darkstar|talk]]) 03:12, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
::Yes, that would be easiest for the bot to pick up. I also started adding categories, not only for better navigation, but to create some kind of [[Ontology]] as well like ''Thing > Physical Format > Video > Cassette > VHS''. The nav headers are also very useful for that. [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 13:39, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
: Bender the bot has finished its first run of pages with extensions and their corresponding PUIDs: http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0
[[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 19:28, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

=== Headers and ontologies ===
For a while, people were adding "breadcrumb" headers linking to the ontology levels above the current page. Then they were removing those headers in favor of just using the ontology links in the format infoboxes. Now they seem to be adding the breadcrumbs back. Which style is actually the "official" standard here? [[User:Dan Tobias|Dan Tobias]] ([[User talk:Dan Tobias|talk]]) 21:31, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
:Well, there's no improvement yet... there are still people adding breadcrumbs and people removing them, so I have no idea whose style to follow. [[User:Dan Tobias|Dan Tobias]] ([[User talk:Dan Tobias|talk]]) 07:02, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
:: I like to use categories, as breadcrumbs are ugly and tedious to add and maintain and suggest we use categories as it is the official (?) policy on Wikipedia. [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 04:21, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

=== Additions and suggestions ===
(This is probably the wrong place for this but I figured here was a good start...)
:Is there a place for a new template object - signature or magic number? e.g. jpg has ÿØÿè as a highly dependable BOF marker.
:: this has already been researched extensively, please read [[PRONOM]]. [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 04:17, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
::: Although it would be a good idea to to just that and create a form of registry. The wiki API can output several formats, eg. xml. [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 04:37, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
:::: First experimental page: [[Registry:fmt/111]] [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 05:36, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
::::: It's a shame that the pages would be named after something as opaque as a number, but I don't know how you'd get around that... But I'd recommend, if possible, to create a field containing only the literal hexadecimal byte values, instead of the hodgepodge of regex abbreviations. And if you add categories based on the magic numbers, then someone could generate a finite state machine that serves as a file format identifier. Just thinking out loud here. [[User:Gphemsley|Gphemsley]] ([[User talk:Gphemsley|talk]]) 05:08, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

===Harvesting resources===
IMHO it would be a good idea to harvest all webpages which are linked in the resource sections. Of course we have Wayback, but, but, but? ... [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 04:15, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

: At the end of the month (and perhaps periodically thereafter) Archiveteam will be doing a deep focused crawl of all the sites linked from this wiki, and passing it off to the Wayback Machine at archive.org. [[User:Chronomex|Chronomex]] ([[User talk:Chronomex|talk]]) 05:36, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Character encoding

2012-11-05T06:51:16Z

Chronomex: iso 2022

{|
|[[File Formats]]
| >
|[[Electronic File Formats]]
| >
|Character Encoding
|}

* [[ASCII]]
** [[ATASCII]] (used by Atari computers)
** [[PETSCII]] (or PET ASCII or CBM ASCII; used by Commodore computers)
* [[ANSEL]]
** [[MARC-8]]
* [[Baudot code]]
* [[Braille]]
* [[EBCDIC]]
* [[IBM PC code pages]]
* [[ISO 646]]
** [[ISO 646-CA]] (Canada / French)
** [[ISO 646-CA-2]] (Canada / French)
** [[ISO 646-CH]] (Switzerland)
** [[ISO 646-CN]] (China / Basic Latin)
** [[ISO 646-CU]] (Cuba / Spanish)
** [[ISO 646-DE]] (Germany)
** [[ISO 646-DK]] (Denmark)
** [[ISO 646-FI]] (Finland)
** [[ISO 646-FR]] (France)
** [[ISO 646-GB]] (Great Britain)
** [[ISO 646-HU]] (Hungary)
** [[ISO 646-IRV]] (International Reference Version)
** [[ISO 646-IT]] (Italy)
** [[ISO 646-JP]] (Japan / Romaji)
** [[ISO 646-JP OCR-B]] (Japan / Romaji)
** [[ISO 646-KR]] (Korea / Latin)
** [[ISO 646-MT]] (Malta)
** [[ISO 646-NL]] (Netherlands)
** [[ISO 646-NO]] (Norway)
** [[ISO 646-NO-2]] (Norway)
** [[ISO 646-PT]] (Portugal)
** [[ISO 646-SE]] (Sweden)
** [[ISO 646-SE-2]] (Sweden)
** [[ISO 646-US]] (Same as [[ASCII]])
** [[ISO 646-YU]] (Yugoslavia)
* [[ISO 8859]]
** [[ISO 8859-1]] (Latin-1)
** [[ISO 8859-2]] (Latin-2, Central/East European)
** [[ISO 8859-3]] (Latin-3, Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, and Turkish)
** [[ISO 8859-4]] (Latin-4, Scandinavian and Baltic)
** [[ISO 8859-5]] (Cyrillic)
** [[ISO 8859-6]] (Arabic)
** [[ISO 8859-7]] (Modern Greek)
** [[ISO 8859-8]] (Hebrew)
** [[ISO 8859-9]] (Latin-5, Turkish)
** [[ISO 8859-10]] (Latin-6, Lappish, Nordic, and Inuit)
** [[ISO 8859-11]] (Thai)
** [[ISO 8859-13]] (Latin-7, Baltic Rim)
** [[ISO 8859-14]] (Celtic)
** [[ISO 8859-15]] (Latin-9, Latin-1 with a Euro sign)
** [[ISO 8859-16]] (Romanian)
* [[ISO 2022]]
* [[JIS]]
** [[JIS X 0201]]
** [[JIS X 0208]]
** [[Shift-JIS]]
* [[KOI8]]
** [[KOI8-CS]] (Czechoslovakia)
** [[KOI8-R]] (Russia)
** [[KOI8-U]] (Ukraine)
* [[Macintosh encodings]]
** [[MacCE]]
** [[MacCyrillic]]
** [[MacDingbat]]
** [[MacGreek]]
** [[MacGujarati]]
** [[MacGurmukhi]]
** [[MacIceland]]
** [[MacRoman]]
** [[MacRomania]]
** [[MacSymbol]]
** [[MacThai]]
** [[MacTurkish]]
** [[MacUkraine]]
* [[Morse code]]
* [[MS-DOS encodings]]
** [[MS-DOS Latin US ]]
** [[MS-DOS Greek ]]
** [[MS-DOS Baltic Rim ]]
** [[MS-DOS Latin-1 ]]
** [[MS-DOS Greek 1 ]]
** [[MS-DOS Latin-2 ]]
** [[MS-DOS Cyrillic ]]
** [[MS-DOS Turkish ]]
** [[MS-DOS Portuguese ]]
** [[MS-DOS Icelandic ]]
** [[MS-DOS Hebrew ]]
** [[MS-DOS French Canada ]]
** [[MS-DOS Arabic ]]
** [[MS-DOS Nordic ]]
** [[MS-DOS Cyrillic CIS 1 ]]
** [[MS-DOS Greek 2 ]]

* [[Unicode]]
** [[UTF-1]]
** [[UTF-16]]
** [[UTF-8]]
** [[UTF-7]]
** [[UTF-EBCDIC]]
* [[VISCII]]
* [[Windows encodings]]
** [[Windows 1252]] (ISO 8859-1 plus additional characters)
** [[Windows 1255]] (Hebrew)
** [[Windows 1256]] (Arabic, Farsi, Urdu)
** [[Windows 1257]] (Baltic Rim)
** [[Windows 1258]] (Vietnamese)
== External links ==

* [http://www.transbay.net/~enf/ascii/ascii.pdf The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874–1968]
* [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/ Collection of character encodings]]

Document

2012-11-05T06:49:29Z

Chronomex: /* Word Processor */

{|
|[[File Formats]]
| >
|[[Electronic File Formats]]
| >
|Document
|}

== Markup ==
* [[HTML]] (HyperText Markup Language)
* [[Markdown]]
* [[SGML]] (Standard Generalised Markup Format)
* [[TEI]] (Specialised dialect of SGML)
* [[TEX]] (TeX)
* [[XHTML]] (Extensible HTML)
* [[XML]]

== Presentation ==
* [[ODP]] (OpenDocument presentation)
* [[PPT]] (PowerPoint presentation)
* [[PPTX]] (PowerPoint presentation, XML format)
* [[SXI]] (StarOffice)

== Spreadsheet ==
* [[ODS]] (OpenDocument spreadsheet)
* [[SDC]] (StarOffice spreadsheet)
* [[XLS]] (Excel spreadsheet format)
* [[XLSX]] (Excel spreadsheet format, XML version)

== Word Processor ==
* [[ABW]] (Abiword word processor)
* [[CHI]] (ChiWriter word processor)
* [[DOC]] (Word document)
* [[DOCX]] (Word document, XML format)
* [[DOT]] (Word template)
* [[DOTX]] (Word template, XML format)
* [[TechWriter|EasiWriter]] (Word processor file format)
* [[ODT]]
* [[OTT]]
* [[SXW]] StarOffice?

== Other ==
* [[602]]
* [[ACL]]
* [[AFP]]
* [[ANS]]
* [[ASC]]
* [[AWW]]
* [[AZW]]
* [[CCF]]
* [[CSV]]
* [[CWK]]
* [[DJVU]]
* [[DOX]] (Mutimate document, and others)
* [[EGT]]
* [[EPUB]]
* [[FDX]]
* [[FTM]]
* [[FTX]]
* [[GM6]] (Game Maker 6 source)
* [[GMK]] (Game Maker 7-8 source)
* [[HWP]]
* [[HWPML]]
* [[Impression]] (Desktop Publishing file format)
* [[LWP]]
* [[MBP]]
* [[MCW]]
* [[MOBI]]
* [[NB]]
* [[NBP]]
* [[ODM]]
* [[OMM]]
* [[PAGES]]
* [[PAP]]
* [[PAT]] (Multimate document, and many others)
* [[PDAX]]
* [[PDF]] (Portable Document Format)
* [[QUOX]]
* [[RTF]] (Rich Text Format)
* [[RTFD]] (Rich Text Format Directory)
* [[RPT]]
* [[scriv]] (Scrivener document format)
* [[SDW]]
* [[STW]]
* [[SXW]]
* [[TechWriter]] (Scientific word processor file format)
* [[TXT]] (Un-structured text document)
* [[UOF]]
* [[UOML]]
* [[VIA]]
* [[WPD]]
* [[WPS]]
* [[WPT]]
* [[WRD]]
* [[WRF]]
* [[WRI]]
* [[XPS]]

Archiving

2012-11-05T06:27:35Z

Chronomex: /* Unknown */ Change section title

{|
|[[File Formats]]
| >
|[[Electronic File Formats]]
| >
|Compression
|}

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

__NOTOC__

== Compression + archiving ==
(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller)

* [[7ZIP]] (.7z)
* [[ACE]] (.ace)
* [[ARC]] (.arc)
* [[ARC (Web Archiving)]] (.arc.gz)
* [[Apple Disk Image]] (.dmg)
* [[ARJ]] (.arj)
* [[BRU]] (RSX-11M backup)
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
* [[DWC]] (.dwc)
* [[IMP]] (.imp)
* [[LHAv]] (.lzh, .lha)
* [[RAR]] (.rar)
* [[Spark]] (.spk)
* [[Stuffit]] (.sit)
* [[Stuffit X]] (.sitx)
* [[WARC]] (.warc.gz)
* [[ZIP]] (.zip)
* [[ZOO]] (.zoo)

== Archiving only ==
(many files => 1 file, no compression attempted)

* [[BinHex]] (.hqx)
* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)
* [[AR]] file format (.a, .lib) -- Unix Archiver (ar) format as used by various compilers/linkers
* [[CPIO]] (.cpio)

== Compression only ==
(1 file => 1 file, makes it smaller)

* [[BZIP2]] (.bz2)
* [[Crunch]] (.?Z?)
* [[GZIP]] (.gz)
* [[Error Code Modeler]] (.ecm)
* [[LZMA]] (.lzma)
* [[Squeeze/SQ]] (.?Q?)
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
* [[LZIP]] (.lz)
* [[LZOP]] (.lzop)
* [[LZW]] (.Z)

== Uncategorized ==

* [[7zX]] (.s7z)
* [[9CDR]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
* [[AFA]] (.afa)
* [[ALZip]] (.alz)
* [[APX]] (.apx)
* [[ARCFS]] (ArcFS ArchivePacker)
* [[ArchiveLib]] (GreenLeaf)
* [[BlakHole]] (.bh)
* [[Compact File Set]] (.cfs)
* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
* [[DGCA]] (.dgc)
* [[Disk Archiver]] (.dar)
* [[DiskDoubler]] (.dd)
* [[DMS]] (.dms; Amiga Disk Masher compressed file)
* [[DUPA]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
* [[DVDisaster Error Correction File]] (.ecc)
* [[FIMP]] (Amiga FileImploder)
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (.F)
* [[GCA]] (.gca)
* [[HA]] (.ha)
* [[Huffman Encoding]] (.z)
* [[ICE]] (.ice)
* [[IFHC]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
* [[IMP]] (Amiga FileImploder)
* [[Inflate]] (.infl)
* [[Jar]] (.j, .jar) => this is just a renamed zip file with some mandatory files
* [[KGB Archiver]] (.kgb)
* [[KiriKiri]] (.xp3)
* [[LZX]] (.lzx)
* [[LNX]] (.lnx; Lynx archive, used on Commodore 64)
* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
* [[MS-DOS Compression]] (.??_)
* [[PackIt]] (.pit)
* [[PAK]] (.pak)
* [[PAQ]] (.paq6, .paq7, .paq8)
* [[Parchive File]] (.par, .par2)
* [[PartImage]] (.partimg)
* [[PeaZip]] (.pea)
* [[PerfectCompress]] (.uca)
* [[PIM]] (.pim)
* [[Quadruple D]] (.qda)
* [[RK]] (.rk)
* [[RZIP]] (.rzip)
* [[SCIFER]] (.ba)
* [[Scifer]] (.sen)
* [[Self Dissolving ARChive]] (.sda)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sea)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sfx)
* [[sfArk]] (.sfark)
* [[Shell Archive]] (.shar)
* [[SQX]] (.sqx)
* [[UHarc]] (.uha)
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
* [[Unix Archiver]] (.ar)
* [[Windows Image]] (.wim)
* [[WinHKI]] (.hki)
* [[WinRK]] (.rk)
* [[XAR]] (.xar)
* [[YZ1]] (.yz1)
* [[Zzip]] (.zz)

ROM and memory images

2012-11-04T11:26:43Z

Chronomex: /* Container formats */

== Super Nintendo ==
* [[048]]
* [[058]]
* [[078]]
* [[AUS]]
* [[BS]]
* [[DX2]]
* [[EUR]]
* [[FIG]]
* [[GD3]]
* [[GD7]]
* [[JAP]]
* [[MGD]]
* [[MGH]]
* [[SFC]]
* [[SMC]]
* [[ST]]
* [[SWC]]
* [[UFO]]
* [[USA]]

== TI Calculators ==
* [[89u]]
* [[8xu]]
* [[92u]]
* More

== Container formats ==
* [[SREC]] / S-Record
* [[Intel HEX]]
* [[BIN44]] (very rare, comes from Nortel, ask [[User:Chronomex]])

ROM and memory images

2012-11-04T11:26:05Z

Chronomex: /* Container formats */

ROM and memory images

2012-11-04T11:24:41Z

Chronomex:

ROM and memory images

2012-11-04T11:23:15Z

Chronomex:

GeoTIFF

2012-11-03T11:28:56Z

Chronomex:

GeoTIFF is an extension of [[TIFF]] for containing georeferenced images. GeoTIFF files can be read by normal TIFF utilities, though they may unintentionally strip out the geospatial data in the process.

OSGeo has a good [http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ list of references].

Geospatial

2012-11-03T11:25:30Z

Chronomex: /* Raster Formats */ change geotiff link

{|
|[[File Formats]]
| >
|[[Electronic File Formats]]
| >
|Geospatial
|}

== Raster Formats ==

* [[GeoTIFF]]
* [[MrSID]]

== Vector Formats ==
* [[SHP]] -- shapefile
* [[KML]]
* [[E00]] -- ArcInfo interchange file

== Grid Formats -- see raster formats, above ==

== Point cloud ==
* [[LAS]]

GeoTIFF

2012-11-03T11:24:48Z

Chronomex: create as soft redirect

Help files

2012-11-02T07:44:20Z

Chronomex:

{|
|[[File Formats]]
| >
|[[Electronic File Formats]]
| >
|Help files
|}

Formats specific to the storage and transmission of Help files.

* [[chm]] (Microsoft Compiled HML Help)
* Whatever weird hypertext format qbasic used
* [[texinfo]]

Template:FormatInfo

2012-11-01T05:41:21Z

Chronomex: add fourcc, hopefully not break everything

{| border="0" style="float: right; border: 1px solid #666666; max-width: 15%; background-color: #F8F8F8; padding: 0.25em; margin-left: 1em;"
! Name
| {{{name|<includeonly>{{PAGENAME}}</includeonly>}}}
|-
! Extension(s)
| {{{extensions}}}
|-
! MIME Type(s)
| {{{mimetypes}}}
|-
! FourCC
| {{{fourccs}}}
|}

Talk:Archiving

2012-11-01T05:09:42Z

Chronomex:

I was about to create a separate category for 'container' formats, but thought I would check here just in case someone had lumped them under compression. Which is what has happened. Having a 'non-compressed' category under the 'compression' category demonstrates the folly of this approach, I think!

I realise that zip and related formats conflate the two notions, but there are many, many container formats which aren't compressed. And there are some compression formats (LZW for example) that aren't container formats. I vote for splitting them but with appropriate cross-linking,

: The seed for this page came from a gigantic list; the categories represent only a few minutes of sortation effort. I am strongly in favor of using actual mediawiki categories. [[User:Chronomex|Chronomex]] ([[User talk:Chronomex|talk]]) 05:09, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

User:Chronomex

2012-10-31T09:54:26Z

Chronomex: created me.

I'm chronomex, some kind of wiki admin here. I have specialized knowledge about GIS (geospatial) topics in particular.

Geospatial

2012-10-31T09:28:01Z

Chronomex: flesh out

{|
|[[File Formats]]
| >
|[[Electronic File Formats]]
| >
|Geospatial
|}

* Raster Formats
** Geo[[TIFF]]
** [[MrSID]]
* Vector Formats
** [[SHP]] -- shapefile
** [[KML]]
* Grid Formats -- see raster formats, above
* Point cloud
** [[LAS]]

Sources

2012-10-28T04:56:18Z

Chronomex: /* List of Places Keeping Track of Formats */ note about wotsit

If you're looking for places to pull either file format information, or to verify stuff you've found, or to go that extra mile to track down variations, here's some similar endeavors and items.

==List of Places Keeping Track of Formats==

* http://archivematica.org/preservation
* http://www.fileformat.info/
* http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
* http://wotsit.org/ - their download page is broken. need to ping webmaster about that.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats
* http://unarchiver.c3.cx/formats
* http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/ Version-level format information on hundreds of formats, can be downloaded as XML (ask me for details [[User:Anjackson|AndyJackson]] 15:07, 2 July 2012 (EDT))
* http://wiki.multimedia.cx/
* http://archive.org/download/file-format-encyclopedia/fileformat.zip/
* http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/descriptions.shtml
* http://www.udfr.org/
* http://gitorious.org/re-lab Tools & specs from re-lab- graphics formats, and office formats
* http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/documents/AudioFormats/index.html - Documentation, details, specs, and samples for a handful of audio formats
* http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/Game_File_Format_Central This wiki is the home of the most game (archive) file format knowledge in the world.
* http://rewiki.regengedanken.de has some more game related reverse engineering
* http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html Home to TrID, which can identify a vast number of file formats using an updateable database
* http://mark0.net/soft-trid-deflist.html Online searchable version of the TrID database file

==Books==

* [http://www.amazon.com/Compressed-Image-File-Formats-JPEG/dp/0201604434/ Compressed Image File Formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, XBM, BMP] by John Miano (1999)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Graphics-File-Formats-Reference/dp/1565921615/ Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats: The Complete Reference on CD-ROM with Links to Internet Resources] by James D. Murray and William VanRyper (1996) '''Copy Acquired!'''
* The CD-ROM for the above book is located [http://archive.org/details/EncyclopediaOfGraphicsFileFormatsCompanionCd-rom here].
* [http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-File-Formats-David-Kay/dp/0070340250/ Graphics File Formats] by David C. Kay and John R. Levine (1994)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-File-Formats-Reference-Guide/dp/0133034054/ Graphics File Formats: Reference and Guide] by C. Wayne Brown, Barry J. Shepherd (1994)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Formats-Popular-Personal-Computer-Software/dp/0471836710/ File Formats for Popular Personal Computer Software: A Programmer's Reference (Self-teaching Guides)] by Jeff Walden (1986) '''Copy Acquired!'''
* [http://www.amazon.com/File-Formats-Internet-Guide-Users/dp/0871114410 File Formats on the Internet: A Guide for PC Users] by Allison B. Zhang (1996) '''Copy Acquired!'''
* [http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-File-Formats-Programmers-Reference/dp/0201488353/ 3D Graphics File Formats: A Programmer's Reference] by Keith Rule (1996)
* [http://www.amazon.com/More-File-Formats-Popular-Software/dp/0471850772/ More File Formats for Popular PC Software: A Programmer's Reference] by Jeff Walden (1987) '''Copy Acquired!'''
* [http://www.amazon.com/Lotus-File-Formats-1-2-3-Symphony/dp/0201168243/ Lotus File Formats for 1-2-3 Symphony & Jazz: File Structure Descriptions for Developers] from Lotus, Inc. (1986)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Windows-File-Formats-Swan/dp/0672303388/ Inside Windows File Formats] by Tom Swan (Nov 1993)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Internet-File-Formats-Complete-Receiving/dp/188357756X/ Internet File Formats: Your Complete Resource for Sending, Receiving, and Using Internet Files] by Tim Kientzle (Oct 15, 1995)
* [http://www.amazon.com/File-Formats-Popular-PC-Software/dp/0471528064/ File Formats for Popular PC Software] by Jeff Walden (Nov 1992)
* [http://www.amazon.com/File-Formats-Conversions-Book-Developers/dp/155755059X/ PC File Formats and Conversions/Book and Disk (Developers Series)] by Ralf Kussmann (Mar 1990)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Undocumented-Formats-Working-Inside/dp/0879304375/ Windows Undocumented File Formats; Working Inside 16- and 32- bit Windows] by Pete Davis (Jan 23, 1997)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-File-Formats-Complete-Reference/dp/0070375321/ Graphics File Formats: The Complete Reference] by John R. Levine and David C. Kay (May 1992)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Using-Pcx-Graphics-Files-Programmers/dp/0879304324/ Using Pcx Graphics Files: The Programmer's Definitive Guide to Pcx File Formats] by Roger T. Stevens (Apr 1, 1996)
* [http://www.amazon.com/File-Formats-Handbook-Gunter-Born/dp/1850321175/ The File Formats Handbook] by Gunter Born (Sep 1995)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Window-System-Formats-Application-Conventions/dp/1872630154/ X Window System File Formats and Application Conventions (X11R4)] by The Open Group (Jul 17, 1991)

==Other Useful Materials and Services==

* [http://emuframework.sourceforge.net/ The Emulation Framework] is software developed by the international KEEP project, co-funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme.
* http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/ National Software Reference Library (see also http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/life-saving-the-national-software-reference-library/)
* http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/software/fido Format Identification for Digital Objects
* https://github.com/usnationalarchives/File-Analyzer File Analyzer
* http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=products&product=uniconvertor UniConvertor is a universal vector graphics translator. It is a command line tool which uses sK1 object model to convert one format to another
* http://www.textfiles.com/programming/FORMATS/
* http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SPR/Digital+Preservation+Tools Wiki list of digital preservation tool lists
* http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/REQ/Digital+Preservation+and+Data+Curation+Requirements+and+Solutions Digital Preservation and Data Curation Requirements and Solutions. Not classified by formats, but by datasets, issues and solutions.
* http://fileformats.wordpress.com/ - The File Formats Blog
* http://www.archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive - The Internet Archive has over 1,500 CD-ROMs loaded with shareware, and with that comes converters, documentation and other vital works related to file formats.
* [http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SPR/Crowd+sourced+Representation+Information+for+Supporting+Preservation+(cRIsp) Crowd sourced Representation Information for Supporting Preservation (cRIsp)]

Archiving

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Chronomex: /* Unknown */ jar

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

__NOTOC__

== Compression + archiving ==
(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller)

* [[7ZIP]] (.7z)
* [[ARC]] (.arc)
* [[Apple Disk Image]] (.dmg)
* [[ARJ]] (.arj)

== Archiving only ==
(many files => 1 file, no compression attempted)

* [[BinHex]] (.hqx)
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)

== Compression only ==
(1 file => 1 file, makes it smaller)

* [[BZIP2]] (.bz2)
* [[GZIP]] (.gz)

== Unknown ==

* [[7zX]] (.s7z)
* [[ACE]] (.ace)
* [[AFA]] (.afa)
* [[ALZip]] (.alz)
* [[APX]] (.apx)
* [[BlakHole]] (.bh)
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
* [[Compact File Set]] (.cfs)
* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
* [[CPIO]] (.cpio)
* [[Crunch]] (.?Z?)
* [[DGCA]] (.dgc)
* [[Disk Archiver]] (.dar)
* [[DiskDoubler]] (.dd)
* [[DVDisaster Error Correction File]] (.ecc)
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (.F)
* [[GCA]] (.gca)
* [[HA]] (.ha)
* [[Huffman Encoding]] (.z)
* [[ICE]] (.ice)
* [[Inflate]] (.infl)
* [[ISO-9660]] (.iso)
* [[Jar]] (.j) => this is just a renamed zip file with some mandatory files
* [[KGB Archiver]] (.kgb)
* [[KiriKiri]] (.xp3)
* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
* [[LHAv]] (.lzh, .lha)
* [[LZIP]] (.lz)
* [[LZMA]] (.lzma)
* [[LZOP]] (.lzop)
* [[LZW]] (.Z)
* [[LZX]] (.lzx)
* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
* [[MS-DOS Compression]] (.??_)
* [[PackIt]] (.pit)
* [[PAK]] (.pak)
* [[PAQ]] (.paq6, .paq7, .paq8)
* [[Parchive File]] (.par, .par2)
* [[PartImage]] (.partimg)
* [[PeaZip]] (.pea)
* [[PerfectCompress]] (.uca)
* [[PIM]] (.pim)
* [[Quadruple D]] (.qda)
* [[RAR]] (.rar)
* [[RK]] (.rk)
* [[RZIP]] (.rzip)
* [[SCIFER]] (.ba)
* [[Scifer]] (.sen)
* [[Self Dissolving ARChive]] (.sda)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sea)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sfx)
* [[sfArk]] (.sfark)
* [[Shell Archive]] (.shar)
* [[Squeeze/SQ]] (.?Q?)
* [[SQX]] (.sqx)
* [[Stuffit]] (.sit)
* [[Stuffit X]] (.sitx)
* [[UHarc]] (.uha)
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
* [[Unix Archiver]] (.ar)
* [[Windows Image]] (.wim)
* [[WinHKI]] (.hki)
* [[WinRK]] (.rk)
* [[XAR]] (.xar)
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
* [[YZ1]] (.yz1)
* [[ZIP]] (.zip)
* [[ZOO]] (.zoo)
* [[Zzip]] (.zz)

Archiving

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Chronomex:

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

== Compression + archiving ==
(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller)

* [[7ZIP]] (.7z)
* [[ARC]] (.arc)
* [[Apple Disk Image]] (.dmg)
* [[ARJ]] (.arj)

== Archiving only ==
(many files => 1 file, no compression attempted)

* [[BinHex]] (.hqx)
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)

== Compression only ==
(1 file => 1 file, makes it smaller)

* [[BZIP2]] (.bz2)
* [[GZIP]] (.gz)

== Unknown ==

* [[7zX]] (.s7z)
* [[ACE]] (.ace)
* [[AFA]] (.afa)
* [[ALZip]] (.alz)
* [[APX]] (.apx)
* [[BlakHole]] (.bh)
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
* [[Compact File Set]] (.cfs)
* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
* [[CPIO]] (.cpio)
* [[Crunch]] (.?Z?)
* [[DGCA]] (.dgc)
* [[Disk Archiver]] (.dar)
* [[DiskDoubler]] (.dd)
* [[DVDisaster Error Correction File]] (.ecc)
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (.F)
* [[GCA]] (.gca)
* [[HA]] (.ha)
* [[Huffman Encoding]] (.z)
* [[ICE]] (.ice)
* [[Inflate]] (.infl)
* [[ISO-9660]] (.iso)
* [[Jar]] (.j)
* [[KGB Archiver]] (.kgb)
* [[KiriKiri]] (.xp3)
* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
* [[LHAv]] (.lzh, .lha)
* [[LZIP]] (.lz)
* [[LZMA]] (.lzma)
* [[LZOP]] (.lzop)
* [[LZW]] (.Z)
* [[LZX]] (.lzx)
* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
* [[MS-DOS Compression]] (.??_)
* [[PackIt]] (.pit)
* [[PAK]] (.pak)
* [[PAQ]] (.paq6, .paq7, .paq8)
* [[Parchive File]] (.par, .par2)
* [[PartImage]] (.partimg)
* [[PeaZip]] (.pea)
* [[PerfectCompress]] (.uca)
* [[PIM]] (.pim)
* [[Quadruple D]] (.qda)
* [[RAR]] (.rar)
* [[RK]] (.rk)
* [[RZIP]] (.rzip)
* [[SCIFER]] (.ba)
* [[Scifer]] (.sen)
* [[Self Dissolving ARChive]] (.sda)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sea)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sfx)
* [[sfArk]] (.sfark)
* [[Shell Archive]] (.shar)
* [[Squeeze/SQ]] (.?Q?)
* [[SQX]] (.sqx)
* [[Stuffit]] (.sit)
* [[Stuffit X]] (.sitx)
* [[UHarc]] (.uha)
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
* [[Unix Archiver]] (.ar)
* [[Windows Image]] (.wim)
* [[WinHKI]] (.hki)
* [[WinRK]] (.rk)
* [[XAR]] (.xar)
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
* [[YZ1]] (.yz1)
* [[ZIP]] (.zip)
* [[ZOO]] (.zoo)
* [[Zzip]] (.zz)

Archiving

2012-10-27T07:08:12Z

Chronomex: some sortation

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

== Compression + archiving ==
(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller)

* [[7ZIP]] (.7z)
* [[ARC]] (.arc)
* [[Apple Disk Image]] (.dmg)
* [[ARJ]] (.arj)

== Archiving only ==
(many files => 1 file, no compression attempted)

* [[BinHex]] (.hqx)

== Compression only ==
(1 file => 1 file, makes it smaller)

* [[BZIP2]] (.bz2)
* [[GZIP]] (.gz)

== Unknown ==

* [[7zX]] (.s7z)
* [[ACE]] (.ace)
* [[AFA]] (.afa)
* [[ALZip]] (.alz)
* [[APX]] (.apx)
* [[BlakHole]] (.bh)
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
* [[Compact File Set]] (.cfs)
* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
* [[CPIO]] (.cpio)
* [[Crunch]] (.?Z?)
* [[DGCA]] (.dgc)
* [[Disk Archiver]] (.dar)
* [[DiskDoubler]] (.dd)
* [[DVDisaster Error Correction File]] (.ecc)
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (.F)
* [[GCA]] (.gca)
* [[HA]] (.ha)
* [[Huffman Encoding]] (.z)
* [[ICE]] (.ice)
* [[Inflate]] (.infl)
* [[ISO-9660]] (.iso)
* [[Jar]] (.j)
* [[KGB Archiver]] (.kgb)
* [[KiriKiri]] (.xp3)
* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
* [[LHAv]] (.lzh, .lha)
* [[LZIP]] (.lz)
* [[LZMA]] (.lzma)
* [[LZOP]] (.lzop)
* [[LZW]] (.Z)
* [[LZX]] (.lzx)
* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
* [[MS-DOS Compression]] (.??_)
* [[PackIt]] (.pit)
* [[PAK]] (.pak)
* [[PAQ]] (.paq6, .paq7, .paq8)
* [[Parchive File]] (.par, .par2)
* [[PartImage]] (.partimg)
* [[PeaZip]] (.pea)
* [[PerfectCompress]] (.uca)
* [[PIM]] (.pim)
* [[Quadruple D]] (.qda)
* [[RAR]] (.rar)
* [[RK]] (.rk)
* [[RZIP]] (.rzip)
* [[SCIFER]] (.ba)
* [[Scifer]] (.sen)
* [[Self Dissolving ARChive]] (.sda)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sea)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sfx)
* [[sfArk]] (.sfark)
* [[Shell Archive]] (.shar)
* [[Squeeze/SQ]] (.?Q?)
* [[SQX]] (.sqx)
* [[Stuffit]] (.sit)
* [[Stuffit X]] (.sitx)
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)
* [[UHarc]] (.uha)
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
* [[Unix Archiver]] (.ar)
* [[Windows Image]] (.wim)
* [[WinHKI]] (.hki)
* [[WinRK]] (.rk)
* [[XAR]] (.xar)
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
* [[YZ1]] (.yz1)
* [[ZIP]] (.zip)
* [[ZOO]] (.zoo)
* [[Zzip]] (.zz)

Archiving

2012-10-27T07:06:47Z

Chronomex: add broad categories

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

== Compression + archiving ==
(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller)

== Archiving only ==
(many files => 1 file, no compression attempted)

== Compression only ==
(1 file => 1 file, makes it smaller)

== Unknown ==

* [[7ZIP]] (.7z)
* [[7zX]] (.s7z)
* [[ACE]] (.ace)
* [[AFA]] (.afa)
* [[ALZip]] (.alz)
* [[Apple Disk Image]] (.dmg)
* [[APX]] (.apx)
* [[ARC]] (.arc)
* [[ARJ]] (.arj)
* [[BinHex]] (.hqx)
* [[BlakHole]] (.bh)
* [[BZIP2]] (.bz2)
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
* [[Compact File Set]] (.cfs)
* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
* [[CPIO]] (.cpio)
* [[Crunch]] (.?Z?)
* [[DGCA]] (.dgc)
* [[Disk Archiver]] (.dar)
* [[DiskDoubler]] (.dd)
* [[DVDisaster Error Correction File]] (.ecc)
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (.F)
* [[GCA]] (.gca)
* [[GZIP]] (.gz)
* [[HA]] (.ha)
* [[Huffman Encoding]] (.z)
* [[ICE]] (.ice)
* [[Inflate]] (.infl)
* [[ISO-9660]] (.iso)
* [[Jar]] (.j)
* [[KGB Archiver]] (.kgb)
* [[KiriKiri]] (.xp3)
* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
* [[LHAv]] (.lzh, .lha)
* [[LZIP]] (.lz)
* [[LZMA]] (.lzma)
* [[LZOP]] (.lzop)
* [[LZW]] (.Z)
* [[LZX]] (.lzx)
* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
* [[MS-DOS Compression]] (.??_)
* [[PackIt]] (.pit)
* [[PAK]] (.pak)
* [[PAQ]] (.paq6, .paq7, .paq8)
* [[Parchive File]] (.par, .par2)
* [[PartImage]] (.partimg)
* [[PeaZip]] (.pea)
* [[PerfectCompress]] (.uca)
* [[PIM]] (.pim)
* [[Quadruple D]] (.qda)
* [[RAR]] (.rar)
* [[RK]] (.rk)
* [[RZIP]] (.rzip)
* [[SCIFER]] (.ba)
* [[Scifer]] (.sen)
* [[Self Dissolving ARChive]] (.sda)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sea)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sfx)
* [[sfArk]] (.sfark)
* [[Shell Archive]] (.shar)
* [[Squeeze/SQ]] (.?Q?)
* [[SQX]] (.sqx)
* [[Stuffit]] (.sit)
* [[Stuffit X]] (.sitx)
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)
* [[UHarc]] (.uha)
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
* [[Unix Archiver]] (.ar)
* [[Windows Image]] (.wim)
* [[WinHKI]] (.hki)
* [[WinRK]] (.rk)
* [[XAR]] (.xar)
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
* [[YZ1]] (.yz1)
* [[ZIP]] (.zip)
* [[ZOO]] (.zoo)
* [[Zzip]] (.zz)

Archiving

2012-10-27T07:04:55Z

Chronomex: hqx

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

* [[7ZIP]] (.7z)
* [[7zX]] (.s7z)
* [[ACE]] (.ace)
* [[AFA]] (.afa)
* [[ALZip]] (.alz)
* [[Apple Disk Image]] (.dmg)
* [[APX]] (.apx)
* [[ARC]] (.arc)
* [[ARJ]] (.arj)
* [[BinHex]] (.hqx)
* [[BlakHole]] (.bh)
* [[BZIP2]] (.bz2)
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
* [[Compact File Set]] (.cfs)
* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
* [[CPIO]] (.cpio)
* [[Crunch]] (.?Z?)
* [[DGCA]] (.dgc)
* [[Disk Archiver]] (.dar)
* [[DiskDoubler]] (.dd)
* [[DVDisaster Error Correction File]] (.ecc)
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (.F)
* [[GCA]] (.gca)
* [[GZIP]] (.gz)
* [[HA]] (.ha)
* [[Huffman Encoding]] (.z)
* [[ICE]] (.ice)
* [[Inflate]] (.infl)
* [[ISO-9660]] (.iso)
* [[Jar]] (.j)
* [[KGB Archiver]] (.kgb)
* [[KiriKiri]] (.xp3)
* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
* [[LHAv]] (.lzh, .lha)
* [[LZIP]] (.lz)
* [[LZMA]] (.lzma)
* [[LZOP]] (.lzop)
* [[LZW]] (.Z)
* [[LZX]] (.lzx)
* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
* [[MS-DOS Compression]] (.??_)
* [[PackIt]] (.pit)
* [[PAK]] (.pak)
* [[PAQ]] (.paq6, .paq7, .paq8)
* [[Parchive File]] (.par, .par2)
* [[PartImage]] (.partimg)
* [[PeaZip]] (.pea)
* [[PerfectCompress]] (.uca)
* [[PIM]] (.pim)
* [[Quadruple D]] (.qda)
* [[RAR]] (.rar)
* [[RK]] (.rk)
* [[RZIP]] (.rzip)
* [[SCIFER]] (.ba)
* [[Scifer]] (.sen)
* [[Self Dissolving ARChive]] (.sda)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sea)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sfx)
* [[sfArk]] (.sfark)
* [[Shell Archive]] (.shar)
* [[Squeeze/SQ]] (.?Q?)
* [[SQX]] (.sqx)
* [[Stuffit]] (.sit)
* [[Stuffit X]] (.sitx)
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)
* [[UHarc]] (.uha)
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
* [[Unix Archiver]] (.ar)
* [[Windows Image]] (.wim)
* [[WinHKI]] (.hki)
* [[WinRK]] (.rk)
* [[XAR]] (.xar)
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
* [[YZ1]] (.yz1)
* [[ZIP]] (.zip)
* [[ZOO]] (.zoo)
* [[Zzip]] (.zz)

Document

2012-10-27T07:03:34Z

Chronomex: djvu

* [[602]]
* [[ABW]]
* [[ACL]]
* [[AFP]]
* [[ANS]]
* [[ASC]]
* [[AWW]]
* [[AZW]]
* [[CCF]]
* [[CSV]]
* [[CWK]]
* [[DJVU]]
* [[DOC]]
* [[DOCX]]
* [[DOT]]
* [[DOTX]]
* [[EGT]]
* [[EPUB]]
* [[FDX]]
* [[FTM]]
* [[FTX]]
* [[HTML]]
* [[HWP]]
* [[HWPML]]
* [[LWP]]
* [[MBP]]
* [[MCW]]
* [[MOBI]]
* [[NB]]
* [[NBP]]
* [[ODM]]
* [[ODT]]
* [[OTT]]
* [[OMM]]
* [[PAGES]]
* [[PAP]]
* [[PDAX]]
* [[PDF]]
* [[QUOX]]
* [[RTF]]
* [[RPT]]
* [[SDW]]
* [[STW]]
* [[SXW]]
* [[TEX]]
* [[TXT]]
* [[UOF]]
* [[UOML]]
* [[VIA]]
* [[WPD]]
* [[WPS]]
* [[WPT]]
* [[WRD]]
* [[WRF]]
* [[WRI]]
* [[XHTML]]
* [[XML]]
* [[XPS]]

Archiving

2012-10-27T07:01:42Z

Chronomex: clarification

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

* [[7ZIP]] (.7z)
* [[7zX]] (.s7z)
* [[ACE]] (.ace)
* [[AFA]] (.afa)
* [[ALZip]] (.alz)
* [[Apple Disk Image]] (.dmg)
* [[APX]] (.apx)
* [[ARC]] (.arc)
* [[ARJ]] (.arj)
* [[BlakHole]] (.bh)
* [[BZIP2]] (.bz2)
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
* [[Compact File Set]] (.cfs)
* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
* [[CPIO]] (.cpio)
* [[Crunch]] (.?Z?)
* [[DGCA]] (.dgc)
* [[Disk Archiver]] (.dar)
* [[DiskDoubler]] (.dd)
* [[DVDisaster Error Correction File]] (.ecc)
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (.F)
* [[GCA]] (.gca)
* [[GZIP]] (.gz)
* [[HA]] (.ha)
* [[Huffman Encoding]] (.z)
* [[ICE]] (.ice)
* [[Inflate]] (.infl)
* [[ISO-9660]] (.iso)
* [[Jar]] (.j)
* [[KGB Archiver]] (.kgb)
* [[KiriKiri]] (.xp3)
* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
* [[LHAv]] (.lzh, .lha)
* [[LZIP]] (.lz)
* [[LZMA]] (.lzma)
* [[LZOP]] (.lzop)
* [[LZW]] (.Z)
* [[LZX]] (.lzx)
* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
* [[MS-DOS Compression]] (.??_)
* [[PackIt]] (.pit)
* [[PAK]] (.pak)
* [[PAQ]] (.paq6, .paq7, .paq8)
* [[Parchive File]] (.par, .par2)
* [[PartImage]] (.partimg)
* [[PeaZip]] (.pea)
* [[PerfectCompress]] (.uca)
* [[PIM]] (.pim)
* [[Quadruple D]] (.qda)
* [[RAR]] (.rar)
* [[RK]] (.rk)
* [[RZIP]] (.rzip)
* [[SCIFER]] (.ba)
* [[Scifer]] (.sen)
* [[Self Dissolving ARChive]] (.sda)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sea)
* [[Self-Extracting Archive]] (.sfx)
* [[sfArk]] (.sfark)
* [[Shell Archive]] (.shar)
* [[Squeeze/SQ]] (.?Q?)
* [[SQX]] (.sqx)
* [[Stuffit]] (.sit)
* [[Stuffit X]] (.sitx)
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)
* [[UHarc]] (.uha)
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
* [[Unix Archiver]] (.ar)
* [[Windows Image]] (.wim)
* [[WinHKI]] (.hki)
* [[WinRK]] (.rk)
* [[XAR]] (.xar)
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
* [[YZ1]] (.yz1)
* [[ZIP]] (.zip)
* [[ZOO]] (.zoo)
* [[Zzip]] (.zz)

Character encoding

2012-10-27T06:31:10Z

Chronomex: subtypes of unicode

* [[ASCII]]
* [[Baudot code]]
* [[Braille]]
* [[EBCDIC]]
* [[ISO 8859]]
* [[Morse code]]
* [[Unicode]]
** [[UTF-1]]
** [[UTF-16]]
** [[UTF-8]]
** [[UTF-7]]
** [[UTF-EBCDIC]]

Punched card

2012-10-27T06:30:02Z

Chronomex: Add blurb on reading without a reader

It should be possible to read most standard punch cards with a sheet-fed scanner (simplex is sufficient) and a simple black/white sensing program. No such program is known to exist yet.

* [[Aperture card]]
* [[Hollerith card]]
* [[IBM card]]
** [[IBM stub card]]
* [[Jacquard Loom]]
* [[Korsakov card]]
* [[Mark Sense card]]
* [[UNIVAC 90-column card]]

== Resources ==

* [http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/ The Douglas W. Jones Punched Card Page]