Format
Paradox Database Table
Summary
- Name
- Paradox Database Table
- Version
- 7
- Identifiers
- PUID: x-fmt/147
- Format type
- Database
- Description
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- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
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db - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
Paradox Database Table 7
- Description
- Header: offset 2 contains 2 byte length of header block (always 2048 little-endian (0008h)); 0ffset 4 a 1 byte code of 00 or 02 for indexed or non-indexed database table, respectively; offset 5, 1 byte indicting maximum block size ( 1 = 1024, 32=32768 in steps of 1 k); offset 39h or 57 decimal a byte indicating table version (0Ch) ; offset 5Ch or 92 decimal 00000000h indicating file is not encrypted.
- Provenance
- Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 2
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
0008(00|02)[01:20]{51}0C{34}00000000- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V51
- Release date
- 15 July 2011
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Added signature
Paradox Database Table 7: Signatures submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.