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how do you think they managed to write the parser without access to the spec then? clearly OP knew about the public document. instead it seems like they're refe
by cAtte_ 2y ago
how do you think they managed to write the parser without access to the spec then? clearly OP knew about the public document. instead it seems like they're referring to some weird private superset of the format that wasn't publicly available
- bayindirh 2y agoReverse engineering is an option, I guess. NTFS, HFS, Microsoft Office formats, many cameras' RAW formats, etc. were reverse engineered with blood sweat and tears to allow interoperability and rescuing some information from them in dire situations for years now. Paragon Software won't be able to give their NTFS source code to Linux Kernel if they got the docs from Microsoft. Microsoft have made Paragon disappear overnight. Edit: Just found out that Paragon still updates and maintains the mainline driver in the Kernel. Huge props to them. Addenda: The first snapshot of this particular webpage appears in Jan 15, 2011, titled July 2010 [0]. This particular incarnation of format is born in 1990, if we believe the Copyright lines in the beginning. There's also a small CSS change comment from "25 Jun, 2009" in the beginning. So the page was present in 2009. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20110115150245/https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110115150245/https://www.adobe...