Format
BZIP2 Compressed Archive
Summary
- Name
- BZIP2 Compressed Archive
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/x-bzip2
- PUID: x-fmt/268
- Format type
- Aggregate
- Description
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- File extensions
-
bz2 - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
Internal signatures
BZIP2 Compressed Archive
- Note
- Magic number BZh, Block header (1AY&SY)
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
425A68??314159265359- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V45
- Release date
- 6 December 2010
BZIP2 Compressed Archive: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.