Format
InstallShield Compiled Rules File
Summary
- Name
- InstallShield Compiled Rules File
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/197
- Format type
- Text (Structured)
- Description
- InstallShield is a proprietary software tool originally developed by The Stirling Group, a company founded in 1987 by Viresh Bhatia and Rick Harold. By 1990, the company was selling a number of products, amongst them InstallShield which was designed to create installation programs. By 1997, Stirling Technologies estimated that InstallShield was being used in 85-90% of all software products written for Windows. The majority of INX files included with an installation are named "setup.inx". This propriety file contains instructions and parameters for the installation.
- Note
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstallShield http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/InstallShield_INX
- File extensions
-
inx - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
InstallShield Compiled Rules File
- Note
- BOF: 'aLuZ Copyright (c) 1990'
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
614C755A0000436F707972696768742028632920313939302D3139393920537469726C696E6720546563686E6F6C6F676965732C204C74642E- Endianness
- None
InstallShield Compiled Rules File (1990-2002)
- Note
- BOF: 'aLuZ Copyright (c) 1990-2002 InstallShield Software Corp.'
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
614C755A0000436F707972696768742028632920313939302D3230303220496E7374616C6C536869656C6420536F66747761726520436F72702E- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V98
- Release date
- 27 October 2021
InstallShield Compiled Rules Files: File format description, note and file format type updated. Submitted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
InstallShield Compiled Rules Files: Signature developed and samples provided by The Church of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.