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0xffae

file-formats as emoji: 0xffae

A little whimsy for those learning about file-format signatures...    more info ▼


Emoji provide a visual reprersentation of the MAGIC bytes PRONOM uses to identify files. Specific bytes and gaps between those become more apparent.

Data is generated from PRONOM and the skeleton-test-suite . More information is available in the GitHub README.
radare2 is a powerful command-line hex-editor and binary explorer that the #digipres community might be interested in exploring further.



To create in radare: r2 -q -c 'pxe {f_sz_bytes}' {filename}


 


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