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Format

Sun Raster Image

Summary

Name
Sun Raster Image
Identifiers
  • MIME: image/x-sun-raster
  • PUID: x-fmt/184
Format type
Image (Raster)
Description
Sun Raster was a raster graphics file format used on SunOS by Sun Microsystems
Format encoding
Text
File extensions
ras, sun
Submitted by
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

Sun Raster Image

Description
Magic number for Sun Raster, height & width, depth, length, type, colormap
Provenance
Sun Rasterfile Format, Man page, SunOS 5.4, 29 March 1994 www.mediatel.lu/workshop/graphic/2D_fileformat/h_sun.html

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
None
Byte Sequence
59A66A95{8}000000{5}000000??000000??
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V78

    Release date
    23 September 2014
    • Updated

      Sun Raster Image: Description and extension (.sun) added.

  • V58

    Release date
    21 March 2012
    • Added signature

      Sun Raster Image: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.