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Signatures

External signatures File extension: bw
File extension: rgb
Internal signatures
Name Silicon Graphics Image
Description Magic number (integer 474=0x01DA) + storage format (0 or 1) + number of bytes per pixel channel(1 or 2) + Number of dimensions (1, 2 or 3)+ number of channels (1, 3, or 4) + dummy + colour map id
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order Big-endian
Value 01DA(00|01)(01|02)00(01|02|03){4}00(01|03|04){80}00(00|01|02|03){368}0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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