Format
Compound WordPerfect for Windows Document
Summary
- Name
- Compound WordPerfect for Windows Document
- Version
- 6 onwards
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/vnd.wordperfect
- PUID: fmt/892
- Format type
- Word Processor
- Description
- This is a compound version of Wordperfect for Windows. Also known as Corel WordPerfect. Major and minor version fields are the main variants between 6.x and 12 formats (The last two bytes in this signature). The major version is the same for 6.x through to 12 documents - 2. The minor version byte for a non-compound file created in WPWin 8.0 is 1. The minor version for a compound file created in WPWin 8.0. Is 2.
- File extensions
-
wpd,doc,wp6,wp,w60 - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Container signatures
Type: OLE2
24200 - Compound WordPerfect for Windows Document 6 onwards
- File path
- PerfectOffice_MAIN
Byte sequence reference
BOFoffset
Sub sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Position
- 1
- Sub sequence min offset
- 0
- Sub sequence max offset
- 0
- Sequence
FF 'WPC'
Byte sequence reference
BOFoffset
Sub sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Position
- 1
- Sub sequence min offset
- 8
- Sub sequence max offset
- 0
- Sequence
01 0A 02 02
Changelog
-
Updated in V92
- Release date
- 20 September 2017
Compound WordPerfect for Windows Document 6 onwards: Adjusted container signature to resolve issue with non-ASCII character representation causing non-identification within Linux environments. Issue identified through Ross Spencer's Skeleton Corpus work and resolution assisted by State Records New South Wales and Richard Lehane's Siegfried file format identification tool.
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Added in V85
- Release date
- 29 June 2016
Compound Version of Wordperfect for Windows: Container signature developed through PRONOM Research. Requested by Artefactual Systems Inc.
Compound WordPerfect for Windows Document 6 onwards: Full entry added. Requested by Artefactual Systems Inc.