Format
Preferred Executable Format
Summary
- Name
- Preferred Executable Format
- Identifiers
-
- Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.apple.pef-binary
- PUID: fmt/1070
- Format type
- Aggregate
- Description
- The Preferred Executable Format is a file format that specifies the format of executable files and other object code for the Apple Macintosh. Files of this type may lack a format extension.
- Source
- Datable / Datable
- Developed by
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- Supported by
- Apple Computer, Inc.
Internal signatures
Preferred Executable Format
- Note
- BOF: Joy!peff https://web.archive.org/web/20020219190852/http://developer.apple.com:80/techpubs/mac/runtimehtml/RTArch-91.html#HEADING=91-0
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
4A6F792170656666- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V91
- Release date
- 25 July 2017
Preferred Executable Format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research based on samples provided by Henk Vanstappen, Datable.
Preferred Executable Format: Full entry added. Submitted by Henk Vanstappen, Datable.