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Format

ActiveMime Object

Summary

Name
ActiveMime Object
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1915
Format type
Dataset
Description
ActiveMime is a Microsoft file format which can be used to encode Office Macros. It is undocumented but the file structure contains two parts. A header containing magic bytes and data about the file such as size and metadata. Followed by a zlib compressed data block.
Note
https://github.com/idiom/activemime-format
File extensions
mso
Source
National Library of Australia / National Library of Australia

Internal signatures

ActiveMime Object

Note
BOF; Offset: 0; Signature: 'ActiveMime'

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
4163746976654D696D65{2}01F0
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Updated in V121

    Release date
    24 September 2025

    ActiveMime Object: End byte corrected from 0F to F0. Submitted by National Library of Australia.

  • Added in V115

    Release date
    15 November 2023

    ActiveMime Object: Signature researched and samples provided by The National Library of Australia.

    ActiveMime Object: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Library of Australia.