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Format

Portable Database

Summary

Name
Portable Database
Version
2
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1065
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
Submitted by
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Relationships

Has lower priority than
Is previous version of
Is subsequent version of

Internal signatures

Portable Database 2

Description
BOF: !<<PDB:II>>!
Provenance
https://svn.alcf.anl.gov/repos/libs/SILO/src/pdb/pdb.c https://github.com/dhmunro/yorick/blob/master/yorick/binpdb.c

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
213C3C5044423A49493E3E21
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V91

    Release date
    25 July 2017
    • Added format

      Portable Database 2: Full entry added.

    • Added signature

      Portable Database 2: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.