Format
SPYne Containers
Summary
- Name
- SPYne Containers
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1579
- Description
- SPYne containers were created by John Lannetta c1995 and are found in Compuserve's CBM applications forum and in COMP.BINARIES.CBM newsgroup. The format is self-extracting and does not employ any compression. The word "SPYNE" does not represent any acronym, but is meant to represent a "spine", with files linked together like a human spine.
- Note
- https://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/formats/SPYNE.TXT https://cbm8bit.com/articles/user-contributions/archival_formats
- File extensions
-
spy - Source
- The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration
- Developed by
- Compuserve Incorporated
Internal signatures
SPY (SPYne Containers)
- Note
- BOF; Offset: 0; Magic Bytes: 0xA70220A0E5A90A8D
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
A70220A0E5A90A8D- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Updated in V102
- Release date
- 15 February 2022
SPYne Containers: Fixed an issue with A0 character appearing in description and signature note. Issue submitted by Ross Spencer.
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Added in V101
- Release date
- 15 February 2022
SPYne Containers: Signature researched and samples provided by The National Archives and Records Administration.
SPYne Containers: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Archives and Records Administration.