Difference between revisions of "ZIM file format"

ZIM file format (view source)

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 | checksumPos || integer || 72 || 8 || pointer to the md5checksum of this archive without the checksum itself. This points always 16 bytes before the end of the archive.
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+A ZIM archive may be embedded in another file at a specific offset. In the context of the ZIM format, the start of the ZIM header is the offset 0. Readers allowing to read an embedded archive must adapt offset accordingly.
 === Major & Minor versions ===
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 * 1 : We use the new namespace usage (describe here).
 * 2 : Means that libzim (reference implementation) allow to create alias entries (Several entries pointing to the same cluster/blob). This was already allowed by specification, this is hint only.
-A zim archive may be embedded in another file at a specific offset. In the context of zim format, the start of the zim header is the offset 0. Readers allowing to read an embedded archive must adapt offset accordingly.
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