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Tagged files are too useful. 4 byte tag name, 4 byte length of the object, then the binary data of the object. You see these all the time. Sometimes you see
by Dwedit 2y ago
Tagged files are too useful. 4 byte tag name, 4 byte length of the object, then the binary data of the object. You see these all the time. Sometimes you see the size before the tag name.
Occasionally, you also see a file header, followed by a size, and an "x", that often indicates a block of ZLIB compressed data.
- lelanthran 2y agoThey're called TLV (Tag, Length, Value) and are used extensively in payment transaction systems.