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Signatures
External signatures File extension: ani
Internal signatures
Name Microsoft Animated Cursor Format
Description Header: RIFF (4 bytes) ACON (variable length byte sequence) anih, then length of subchunck (32) minus 8 followed by HeaderSize is the size of the subchunk data (all the bytes appearing after the Size field) in bytes. Followed by LIST (4 bytes) framicon
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
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Value 52494646{4}41434F4E{0-*}616E69682400000024000000[!00]*4C495354{4}6672616D69636F6E
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