Format

Enigma Transportable File (Finale)

Summary

Name: Enigma Transportable File (Finale)
Identifiers: PUID: fmt/398
Format type: Text (Structured)
Description: An early version of Finale notation files in plain text format. They were used to transfer Finale documents between Windows and Mac. Finale was originally created for Coda Music Software, later sold to Net4Music which then became MakeMusic. Originally made for Macintosh in 1988 it was later made available for Microsoft Windows. The Enigma stands for 'Environment for Notation Intuitive Graphic Music Algorithms'.
Note: https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/tag/font/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990203113959/http://www.codamusic.com:80/down/finale/eeppd.txt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finale_(scorewriter) http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Finale
File extensions: etf
Submitted by: National Library of New Zealand / National Library of New Zealand

Description: BOF; Offset: 0; Magic Bytes: ‘ENIGMA' followed either by 'TRANSPORTABLE FILE’ or 'transportable file' and later proceeded by version - there are multiple versions this is a generic signature for all.
Provenance: 04/2024 (v.117)- Signature adjusted to allow for lower case and upper case text and simplified by removing later strings that are not always present. Submitted by Brigham Young University.

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 0
Max offset: 0
Byte Sequence: 454E49474D4120(5452414E53504F525441424C452046494C45|7472616E73706F727461626C652066696C65)
Endianness: None