Format
Microsoft Windows Cursor
Summary
- Name
- Microsoft Windows Cursor
- Identifiers
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- PUID: fmt/385
- MIME: image/x-win-bitmap
- Format type
- Image (Raster)
- Description
- Microsoft Windows Cursor file is a binary system file. CUR pointer images come in different standard sizes such as 16x16 and 32x32. They are a stationary image format similar to an ICO (icon) file. CUR files are found alongside the installation of Microsoft Windows and were first introduced in Microsofts Windows 1.0 operating system in 1981.
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
cur - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
Microsoft Windows Cursor
- Description
- Header: (00000200) followed by number of images used in file. For purposes of this signature, range limited to 1-9. Header sequence followed by image directory, then sequence (000028000000{2}0000{2}00000100[01:20]0000000000). Microsoft Windows cursor file has been extended from the Icon file format (.ico)
- Provenance
- 08/2023 (v.113)- Offsets removed from variable byte sequence. Submitted by Preservica.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
00000200[01:09]00{3}00{1}00{1}00{3}00*000028000000{2}0000{2}00000100[01:20]0000000000- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Variable
- Offset
- None
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
000028000000{2}0000{2}00000100[01:20]0000000000- Endianness
- None
Changelog
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V114
- Release date
- 22 August 2023
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Updated
Microsoft Windows Cursor: Offsets removed from variable byte sequence and updated description. Submitted by Preservica.
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V74
- Release date
- 31 March 2014
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Updated
Microsoft Windows Cursor: Merged BOF and VAR sequences to avoid offset issue identified by Ross Spencer.
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V55
- Release date
- 4 January 2012
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Added format
Microsoft Windows Cursor: Outline entry added.
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Added signature
Microsoft Windows Cursor: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.