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Format

Microsoft Outlook Personal Address Book

Summary

Name
Microsoft Outlook Personal Address Book
Identifiers
PUID: x-fmt/75
Description
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Format encoding
Text
File extensions
pab
Submitted by
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

Microsoft Outlook Personal Address Book

Description
4byte signature (!BDN); 4 byte CRC 32 0f following 471 bytes, zero for 64-bit PAB files; 2 byte content type (AB for PAB files)
Provenance
Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
None
Byte Sequence
2142444E{4}4142
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V51

    Release date
    15 July 2011
    • Added signature

      Microsoft Outlook Personal Address Book: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.