Format

Windows Setup File

Summary

Name

Windows Setup File

Identifiers

Format type

Text (Structured)

Description

Windows Setup File or Installer Script.

Format encoding

Text

File extensions

inf

Submitted by

Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Description: ASCII: [Version]..Signature="$CHICAGO$". By convention, the Version section appears first in INF files, although this is not always the case in practice. Every Windows INF file must have this section. This version of the inf file can appear in all Windows operating systems
Provenance: Ongoing DROID research.

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 0
Max offset: 1024
Byte Sequence: 5B(56|76)657273696F6E5D0D0A(53|73)69676E6174757265{0-1}3D{0-2}24(4368696361676F|4348494341474F)24{0-1}0D0A
Endianness: None

Description: ASCII: [Version]..Signature="$WINDOWS NT$". By convention, the Version section appears first in INF files, although this is not always the case in practice. Every Windows INF file must have this section. This version of the inf file can appear in all Windows NT based operating systems
Provenance: Ongoing DROID research

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 0
Max offset: 1024
Byte Sequence: 5B(56|76)657273696F6E5D0D0A(53|73)69676E6174757265{0-3}3D{0-1}2224(57494E444F5753|57696E646F7773)204E5424220D0A
Endianness: None

Description: ASCII: [Version]..Signature="$Windows 95$". By convention, the Version section appears first in INF files, although this is not always the case in practice. Every Windows INF file must have this section. This version of the inf file can appear in all Windows 9x/ME operating systems
Provenance: Ongoing DROID research

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 0
Max offset: 1024
Byte Sequence: 5B(56|76)657273696F6E5D0D0A(53|73)69676E6174757265{0-3}3D{0-1}2224(57494E444F5753|57696E646F7773)20393524220D0A
Endianness: None