SAUCE

File Format
Name	SAUCE
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Metadata SAUCE
Released	1994

SAUCE (Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions) is a standard metadata format primarily used with character graphics formats related to ANSI Art.

Identification

Typically, if a file contains SAUCE metadata, the final 128 bytes of the file begin with the ASCII signature "SAUCE".

Software

• Ansilove/PHP
• AnsiLove/C

Sample files

Examples of files (in various formats) that contain SAUCE data:

• acm!mbrs.ans
• bl-gold1.ans
• SQ-FORCE.IDF
• XBIN.TXT

Links

• SAUCE – Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions
• Wikipedia article