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Tables for Crystallography Volume G Definition and exchange of crystallographic data Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon © International Union of Crystallography 2006 |
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 2.3, p. 43
https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000729 Appendix A2.3.1. Deprecated CBF conventions
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There was an earlier, now deprecated, CBF format in which the compression type was given as eight bytes of binary header. In this case, the eight bytes used for the compression type are subtracted from the size, so that the same size will be reported if the compression type is supplied in the MIME header. Use of the MIME header is the recommended way to supply the compression type.
These earlier versions of the specification also included three eight-byte words of information in binary that replicated information now available in the MIME header:
The three eight-byte words were followed by binary data. These words are not included when a MIME header is provided.