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Summary

Name ActiveMime Object
Version  
Other names  
Identifiers PUID:  fmt/1915
Family  
Classification Dataset
Disclosure  
Description ActiveMime is a Microsoft file format which can be used to encode Office Macros. It is undocumented but the file structure contains two parts. A header containing magic bytes and data about the file such as size and metadata. Followed by a zlib compressed data block.
Orientation  
Byte order  
Related file formats None.
Technical Environment  
Released  
Supported until  
Format Risk  
Developed by None.
Supported by None.
Source National Library of Australia / National Library of Australia
Source date 25 Aug 2023
Source description  
Last updated 25 Aug 2023
Note https://github.com/idiom/activemime-format
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