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External signatures File extension: dbf
Internal signatures
Name Microsoft Visual FoxPro Database table file
Description Header sequence: Version number, Date of last update MMDD, First upper or lowercase character of field name, field type (B, C, D, F, I, L, M, N, P, T, Y).
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order  
Value 30??[01:0C][01:1F]{28}([41:5A]|[61:7A]){10}(42|43|44|49|4C|4D|4E|50|54|59)
Name Microsoft Visual FoxPro Database table file, autoincrement enabled
Description Header sequence: Version number, Date of last update MMDD, First upper or lowercase character of field name, field type (B, C, D, F, I, L, M, N, P, T, Y).
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order  
Value 31??[01:0C][01:1F]{28}([41:5A]|[61:7A]){10}(42|43|44|49|4C|4D|4E|50|54|59)
Name Microsoft Visual FoxPro Database table file, with field type Varchar or Varbinary
Description Header sequence: Version number, Date of last update MMDD, First upper or lowercase character of field name, field type (B, C, D, F, I, L, M, N, P, T, Y).
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order  
Value 32??[01:0C][01:1F]{28}([41:5A]|[61:7A]){10}(42|43|44|49|4C|4D|4E|50|54|59)
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