Re: [OT] How to extract a BOM archive correctly?
Re: [OT] How to extract a BOM archive correctly?
- Subject: Re: [OT] How to extract a BOM archive correctly?
- From: "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 01:54:28 +0100
On 05/10/2007, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) <email@hidden> wrote:
> I've read the man pages before, but they aren't specifications; that is,
> if I write a tool that is designed to parse a BOM file, I need to know
> what the different bytes are that it sees. I can reverse engineer this,
> but that can lead to errors that I would prefer to avoid. The man pages
> for bom, lsbom, and mkbom (at least on my machine, a fairly stock
> 10.4.10 machine) don't give enough information on this for me to write a
> tool. Basically, I'm looking for a spec like you'd find if you were
> trying to create a new jpeg library; you need more than what help files
> for your favorite jpeg viewer provide. In the same way, I need more
> than what the man/info pages provide.
There is no such specification, it is a private file format. You could
always just parse the output of lsbom, which will give you what you
need.
-- Finlay
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