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Основные и дополнительные блоки, а также границы их действия
Размер блока
Использование формата GIF в составе более общего протокола
Субблоки данных
Блок-терминатор
Заголовок
Дескриптор логического экрана
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Локальная таблица цветов
Кодирование изображений методом таблиц
Дополнительный блок управления изображением
Дополнительный блок комментария
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Дополнительный блок приложений
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A metafile for the Windows operating system consists of a collection of graphics  device interface (GDI) functions  that describe an image. Because metafiles take up less space and are more device- independent than bitmaps, they  provide convenient storage for images that appear repeatedly in an application or  need to be moved from one  application to another. To generate a metafile, a Windows application creates a special device context that sends GDI commands to a file or memory for storage. The application can later play back the metafile and display the image. During playback, Windows breaks the metafile down into records and identifies  each object with an index to a handle table. Читать далее →

Also Known As: WMF, Enhanced Metafile, EMF, APM

Type Metafile
Colors 24-bit
Compression None
Maximum Image Size NA
Multiple Images Per File Yes
Numerical Format Little-endian
Originator Microsoft Corporation
Platform Microsoft Windows
Supporting Applications Numerous Microsoft Windows-based graphics applications
Usage Storage of vector drawings and bitmaps. Читать далее →

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General Format of a ZIP file  Files stored in arbitrary order.  Large zipfiles can span multiple diskette media. Читать далее →

*.CSV (Comma Seperated Value) format is mostly self-explanatory ASCII text format. If you export a file from a database in CSV format and look at it you will find that it is simply a list of entries seperated by commas:

<CSV_file> ::= { <CSV_line> }
<CSV_line> ::= <value> { "," <value> } <spaces_and_tabs>
<CRLF>
<value> ::= <spaces_and_tabs>
        (
          { <any_text_except_quotas_and_commas_and_smth_else>
}
        | <single_or_double_quote>
          <any_text_save_CRLF_with_corresponding_doubled_quotas>
          <the_same_quote>
        )

That’s all I think… and there is some problem with this format: different database systems have different definitions of the term <any_text_except_quotas_and_commas_and_smth_else> Also Paradox version approx.4 has the bug. When converting to .CSV, it always writes values surrounded by «s — but if in the source database file we have a field containing «s, them will not be doubled in CSV.
E.g.: abc»dfg will be translated to «abc»dfg» instead of «abc»»dfg».

Intel byte order
DISCLAIMER:  THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED «AS IS».  I verify the information contained in this list to the best of my ability, but I cannot be held responsible for any problems caused by use or misuse of the information, especially for those file formats foreign to the PC, like AMIGA or SUN file formats. If an information it is marked «guesswork» or undocumented, you should check it carefully to make sure your program will not break with an unexpected value (and please let me know whether or not it works the same way). Information marked with «???» is known to be incomplete or guesswork.
Some file formats were not released by their creators, others are regarded as proprietary, which means that if your programs deal with them, you might be looking for trouble. I don’t care about this.
The COM files are raw binary executables and are a leftover from the old CP/M machines with 64K RAM.  A COM program can only have a size of less than one segment (64K), including code and static data since no fixups for segment relocation or anything else is included. One method to check for a COM file is to check if the first byte in the file could be a valid jump or call opcode, but this is a very weak test since a COM file is not required to start with a jump or a call. In principle, a COM file is just loaded at offset 100h in the segment and then executed. Читать далее →