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- ARCFS(5) FILE FORMATS ARCFS(5)
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- NAME
- ArcFS - Archive file format for the RISC OS ArcFS filesystem
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- CONVENTIONS
- Strings are given in ASCII with C-style escapes. No ter-
- minating is present if not explicitly included.
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- Words are 32 bit little-endian numbers.
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- Half words are 16 bit little-endian numbers.
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- This document describes format version 0, for ArcFS minimum
- versions 0.40 and 1.00, and version 0a, for ArcFS minimum
- versions 0.58 and 2.17.
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- FORMAT
- The file consists of a file header, a sequence of archive
- headers, then a sequence of compressed files.
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- FILE HEADER
- _F_i_l_e _s_t_r_i_n_g _s_i_g_n_a_t_u_r_e
- The string "Archive" followed by a zero byte.
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- _H_e_a_d_e_r _l_e_n_g_t_h
- Length of header info in bytes, one word, multiple of 36.
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- _D_a_t_a _o_f_f_s_e_t
- Offset, in bytes, into archive at which data starts, one
- word.
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- _R_e_a_d-_o_n_l_y _v_e_r_s_i_o_n
- Minimum read-only version required, multiplied by 100, one
- word.
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- _R_e_a_d-_w_r_i_t_e _v_e_r_s_i_o_n
- Minimum read--write version required, multiplied by 100, one
- word.
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- _R_e_s_e_r_v_e_d
- Reserved for future use, 68 bytes.
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- ARCHIVE HEADER
- The last header starts at 60+length of headers and ends at
- 96+length of headers. The format of each header is as fol-
- lows.
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- _I_n_f_o _b_y_t_e
- Object information byte, show compression method used:
- 0x00 end of directory marker
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- ARCFS(5) FILE FORMATS ARCFS(5)
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- 0x01 object has been deleted
- 0x82 stored
- 0x83 packed
- 0x88 crunched
- 0xFF compressed
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- _F_i_l_e _n_a_m_e
- File name, 11 bytes.
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- _F_u_l_l _l_e_n_g_t_h
- Original file length, or 0xFFFFFFFF for a directory), one
- word.
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- _L_o_a_d _a_d_d_r_e_s_s
- Load address of the file, or 0xFFFFFFdd for a directory),
- one word.
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- _E_x_e_c _a_d_d_r_e_s_s
- Exec address of the file, or 0xdddddddd for a directory),
- one word.
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- File load and execution address may contain a filetype and
- datestamp as normal.
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- Directories can be date-stamped, the number of centiseconds
- since the 1st January 1900 when the directory was created
- are given by &dddddddddd contained in the directory's load
- and execution addresses as shown above.
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- Archives converted from spark(5) format using ArcConv will
- have the same full length, compressed length, load address
- and execute address as they had in the Spark archive.
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- _A_t_t_r_i_b_u_t_e_s
- Attributes of the file, one word. Contains the number of
- bits compression for crunch and compress format files and
- the least significant bytes contains the standard RISC OS
- information on file access.
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- _C_o_m_p_r_e_s_s_e_d _l_e_n_g_t_h
- Length of compressed data, or 0xFFFFFFFF for a directory,
- one word.
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- _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n _w_o_r_d
- The top bit (definitively) indicates whether the object is a
- file or a directory, 0 for a file, 1 for a directory.
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- In the case of a file, the least significant 31 bits show
- the offset from the start of data at which the file data can
- be found.
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- In the case of a directory, the least significant 31 bits
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- ARCFS(5) FILE FORMATS ARCFS(5)
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- show the offset from the start of headers (96) at which the
- next object in this directory can be found, the following
- object being the first in the sub-directory.
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- FORMAT VERSION 0a
- This archive format is backwards compatible with versions
- 0.40 and 1.00, the only difference being that there is a
- block of catalogue information immediately prior to the
- start of each file's data as described below.
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- Note that this information is there to aid the recovery of
- most files in the event of archive corruption and is not
- used by ArcFS.
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- Note, also that Compact and Autocompact in release versions
- 1.09, 2.02 and 2.11 will compact out the catalogue informa-
- tion blocks, so try to avoid writing to new archives with
- old versions of ArcFS.
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- _M_a_r_k_e_r
- A marker to indicate the start of a file, the string "FileData", not terminated.
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- _I_n_f_o _b_y_t_e
- One byte, as above.
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- _L_e_a_f _n_a_m_e
- The file name, 11 bytes.
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- _F_u_l_l _l_e_n_g_t_h
- One word, as above.
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- _L_o_a_d _a_d_d_r_e_s_s
- One word, as above.
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- _E_x_e_c _a_d_d_r_e_s_s
- One word, as above.
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- _A_t_t_r_i_b_u_t_e_s
- One word, as above.
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- SEE ALSO
- spark(5), nspark(1)
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