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(Created page with " <!-- Type–length–value is a way of laying out a file that contains many things, namely as a series of chunks that are * type of the next chunk * length of that data that follows * that data This is * fast to seek through :: in that you can seek forward that length, and ''know'' you are on the next chunk. * extensible :: in the sense that any reader, faced with a chunk type they do not know, can just ignore and skip it It puts memory of its rules in user.rules...") |
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Revision as of 22:22, 1 February 2024
The best implementation example of this concept may be Interchange File Format (IFF), e.g. as used in WAV files and others,
and broadly-but-not-always-strictly followed in JPEG, TIFF (not IFF),
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