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#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# archive: file(1) magic for archive formats (see also "msdos" for self-
# extracting compressed archives)
#
# cpio, ar, arc, arj, hpack, lha/lharc, rar, squish, uc2, zip, zoo, etc.
# pre-POSIX "tar" archives are handled in the C code.
# POSIX tar archives
257 string ustar\0 POSIX tar archive
257 string ustar\040\040\0 GNU tar archive
# cpio archives
#
# Yes, the top two "cpio archive" formats *are* supposed to just be "short".
# The idea is to indicate archives produced on machines with the same
# byte order as the machine running "file" with "cpio archive", and
# to indicate archives produced on machines with the opposite byte order
# from the machine running "file" with "byte-swapped cpio archive".
#
# The SVR4 "cpio(4)" hints that there are additional formats, but they
# are defined as "short"s; I think all the new formats are
# character-header formats and thus are strings, not numbers.
0 short 070707 cpio archive
0 short 0143561 byte-swapped cpio archive
0 string 070707 ASCII cpio archive (pre-SVR4 or odc)
0 string 070701 ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)
0 string 070702 ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with CRC)
# Debian package (needs to go before regular portable archives)
#
0 string !<arch>\ndebian
>8 string debian-split part of multipart Debian package
>8 string debian-binary Debian binary package
>68 string >\n (format %s)
>136 ledate x created: %s
# other archives
0 long 0177555 very old archive
0 short 0177555 very old PDP-11 archive
0 long 0177545 old archive
0 short 0177545 old PDP-11 archive
0 long 0100554 apl workspace
0 string =<ar> archive
# MIPS archive (needs to go before regular portable archives)
#
0 string !<arch>\n__________E MIPS archive
>20 string U with MIPS Ucode members
>21 string L with MIPSEL members
>21 string B with MIPSEB members
>19 string L and an EL hash table
>19 string B and an EB hash table
>22 string X -- out of date
0 string -h- Software Tools format archive text
#
# XXX - why are there multiple <ar> thingies? Note that 0x213c6172 is
# "!<ar", so, for new-style (4.xBSD/SVR2andup) archives, we have:
#
# 0 string !<arch> current ar archive
# 0 long 0x213c6172 archive file
#
# and for SVR1 archives, we have:
#
# 0 string \<ar> System V Release 1 ar archive
# 0 string =<ar> archive
#
# XXX - did Aegis really store shared libraries, breakpointed modules,
# and absolute code program modules in the same format as new-style
# "ar" archives?
#
0 string !<arch> current ar archive
>8 string __.SYMDEF random library
>0 belong =65538 - pre SR9.5
>0 belong =65539 - post SR9.5
>0 beshort 2 - object archive
>0 beshort 3 - shared library module
>0 beshort 4 - debug break-pointed module
>0 beshort 5 - absolute code program module
0 string \<ar> System V Release 1 ar archive
0 string =<ar> archive
#
# XXX - from "vax", which appears to collect a bunch of byte-swapped
# thingies, to help you recognize VAX files on big-endian machines;
# with "leshort", "lelong", and "string", that's no longer necessary....
#
0 belong 0x65ff0000 VAX 3.0 archive
0 belong 0x3c61723e VAX 5.0 archive
#
0 long 0x213c6172 archive file
0 lelong 0177555 very old VAX archive
0 leshort 0177555 very old PDP-11 archive
#
# XXX - "pdp" claims that 0177545 can have an __.SYMDEF member and thus
# be a random library (it said 0xff65 rather than 0177545).
#
0 lelong 0177545 old VAX archive
>8 string __.SYMDEF random library
0 leshort 0177545 old PDP-11 archive
>8 string __.SYMDEF random library
#
# From "pdp" (but why a 4-byte quantity?)
#
0 lelong 0x39bed PDP-11 old archive
0 lelong 0x39bee PDP-11 4.0 archive
# ARC archiver, from Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com)
#
# The first byte is the magic (0x1a), byte 2 is the compression type for
# the first file (0x01 through 0x09), and bytes 3 to 15 are the MS-DOS
# filename of the first file (null terminated). Since some types collide
# we only test some types on basis of frequency: 0x08 (83%), 0x09 (5%),
# 0x02 (5%), 0x03 (3%), 0x04 (2%), 0x06 (2%). 0x01 collides with terminfo.
0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000081a ARC archive data, dynamic LZW
0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000091a ARC archive data, squashed
0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000021a ARC archive data, uncompressed
0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000031a ARC archive data, packed
0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000041a ARC archive data, squeezed
0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000061a ARC archive data, crunched
# Acorn archive formats (Disaster prone simpleton, m91dps@ecs.ox.ac.uk)
# I can't create either SPARK or ArcFS archives so I have not tested this stuff
# [GRR: the original entries collide with ARC, above; replaced with combined
# version (not tested)]
#0 byte 0x1a RISC OS archive
#>1 string archive (ArcFS format)
0 string \032archive RISC OS archive (ArcFS format)
# ARJ archiver (jason@jarthur.Claremont.EDU)
0 leshort 0xea60 ARJ archive data
>5 byte x \b, v%d,
>8 byte &0x04 multi-volume,
>8 byte &0x10 slash-switched,
>8 byte &0x20 backup,
>34 string x original name: %s,
>7 byte 0 os: MS-DOS
>7 byte 1 os: PRIMOS
>7 byte 2 os: Unix
>7 byte 3 os: Amiga
>7 byte 4 os: Macintosh
>7 byte 5 os: OS/2
>7 byte 6 os: Apple ][ GS
>7 byte 7 os: Atari ST
>7 byte 8 os: NeXT
>7 byte 9 os: VAX/VMS
>3 byte >0 %d]
# HA archiver (Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu)
# This is a really bad format. A file containing HAWAII will match this...
#0 string HA HA archive data,
#>2 leshort =1 1 file,
#>2 leshort >1 %u files,
#>4 byte&0x0f =0 first is type CPY
#>4 byte&0x0f =1 first is type ASC
#>4 byte&0x0f =2 first is type HSC
#>4 byte&0x0f =0x0e first is type DIR
#>4 byte&0x0f =0x0f first is type SPECIAL
# HPACK archiver (Peter Gutmann, pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz)
0 string HPAK HPACK archive data
# JAM Archive volume format, by Dmitry.Kohmanyuk@UA.net
0 string \351,\001JAM\ JAM archive,
>7 string >\0 version %.4s
>0x26 byte =0x27 -
>>0x2b string >\0 label %.11s,
>>0x27 lelong x serial %08x,
>>0x36 string >\0 fstype %.8s
# LHARC/LHA archiver (Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu)
2 string -lh0- LHarc 1.x archive data [lh0]
2 string -lh1- LHarc 1.x archive data [lh1]
2 string -lz4- LHarc 1.x archive data [lz4]
2 string -lz5- LHarc 1.x archive data [lz5]
# [never seen any but the last; -lh4- reported in comp.compression:]
2 string -lzs- LHa 2.x? archive data [lzs]
2 string -lh\40- LHa 2.x? archive data [lh ]
2 string -lhd- LHa 2.x? archive data [lhd]
2 string -lh2- LHa 2.x? archive data [lh2]
2 string -lh3- LHa 2.x? archive data [lh3]
2 string -lh4- LHa (2.x) archive data [lh4]
2 string -lh5- LHa (2.x) archive data [lh5]
2 string -lh6- LHa (2.x) archive data [lh6]
2 string -lh7- LHa (2.x) archive data [lh7]
>20 byte x - header level %d
# RAR archiver (Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu)
0 string Rar! RAR archive data
# SQUISH archiver (Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu)
0 string SQSH squished archive data (Acorn RISCOS)
# UC2 archiver (Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu)
# I can't figure out the self-extracting form of these buggers...
0 string UC2\x1a UC2 archive data
# ZIP archives (Greg Roelofs, c/o zip-bugs@wkuvx1.wku.edu)
0 string PK\003\004 Zip archive data
>4 byte 0x09 \b, at least v0.9 to extract
>4 byte 0x0a \b, at least v1.0 to extract
>4 byte 0x0b \b, at least v1.1 to extract
>4 byte 0x14 \b, at least v2.0 to extract
# Zoo archiver
20 lelong 0xfdc4a7dc Zoo archive data
>4 byte >48 \b, v%c.
>>6 byte >47 \b%c
>>>7 byte >47 \b%c
>32 byte >0 \b, modify: v%d
>>33 byte x \b.%d+
>42 lelong 0xfdc4a7dc \b,
>>70 byte >0 extract: v%d
>>>71 byte x \b.%d+
# Shell archives
10 string #\ This\ is\ a\ shell\ archive shell archive text
#
# LBR. NB: May conflict with the questionable
# "binary Computer Graphics Metafile" format.
#
0 string \0\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \0\0 LBR archive data
#
# PMA (CP/M derivative of LHA)
#
2 string -pm0- PMarc archive data [pm0]
2 string -pm1- PMarc archive data [pm1]
2 string -pm2- PMarc archive data [pm2]
2 string -pms- PMarc SFX archive (CP/M, DOS)
5 string -pc1- PopCom compressed executable (CP/M)
# From Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>
# The Project Revision Control System (see
# http://prcs.sourceforge.net) generates a packaged project
# file which is recognized by the following entry:
0 leshort 0xeb81 PRCS packaged project
# Microsoft cabinets
# by David Necas (Yeti) <yeti@physics.muni.cz>
0 string MSCF\0\0\0\0 Microsoft cabinet file data,
>25 byte x v%d
>24 byte x \b.%d
# GTKtalog catalogs
# by David Necas (Yeti) <yeti@physics.muni.cz>
4 string gtktalog\ GTKtalog catalog data,
>13 string 3 version 3
>>14 beshort 0x677a (gzipped)
>>14 beshort !0x677a (not gzipped)
>13 string >3 version %s
############################################################################
# Parity archive reconstruction file, the 'par' file format now used on Usenet.
0 string PAR\0 PARity archive data
>48 leshort =0 - Index file
>48 leshort >0 - file number %d
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