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Format

Portable Database

Summary

Name
Portable Database
Version
1
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1064
Format type
Database
Description
PDBLib is a small library of file management routines for storing and retrieving binary data in a portable format, created by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/pact/pdb.html
File extensions
pdb
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Relationships

Has lower priority than
Is previous version of

Internal signatures

Portable Database 1

Note
BOF: !<><PDB><>!

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
213C3E3C5044423E3C3E21
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V91

    Release date
    25 July 2017

    Portable Database 1: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.

    Portable Database 1: Full entry added.