A zero-byte file or zero-length file is a computer file containing no data; that is, it has a length or size of zero bytes. There are many ways that could...

is a case of zero-byte file. The ASCII character set is the most common compatible subset of character sets for English-language text files, and is generally...

The byte-order mark (BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code, U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, whose appearance as a magic number...

20 bytes. Some preceding "negative offset" bytes were squeezed from reserved spaces in CP/M Zero Page and DOS Program Segment Prefix for storing file attributes...

zero byte file; these files can be newly created files that have not yet had any data written to them, or may serve as some kind of flag in the file system...

block of bytes is at the start of the file and is used to identify the file. A typical application reads this block first to ensure that the file is actually...

of zero. Additionally, for FAT IDs other than 0xFF (and 0x00) it is possible to determine the correct nibble and byte order (to be) used by the file system...

people all over the world. Each file starts with a two-byte magic number (in ASCII) that identifies the type of file it is (PBM, PGM, and PPM) and its...

551,615 bytes (264−1 bytes, or 16 EB minus 1 byte). A Seek-Optimized ZIP file (SOZip) profile has been proposed for the ZIP format. Such file contains...

address specifies a different byte. An n-byte aligned address would have a minimum of log2(n) least-significant zeros when expressed in binary. The alternate...

specification the antivirus detects the test file only if it starts with the 68-byte test string and is not more than 128 bytes long. As a result, antiviruses are...

reading sparse files, the file system transparently converts metadata representing empty blocks into "real" blocks filled with null bytes at runtime. The...

followed by a byte equal to 0, and specifies that this must be the first segment in the file, hence making it simple to recognize a JFIF file. Exif images...

sequence of n bytes of data, represented by 2n hex digits. Some records omit this field (n equals zero). The meaning and interpretation of data bytes depends...

in Microsoft Windows. The only differences between these two file formats are the bytes used to identify them and the addition of a hotspot in the CUR...

modifications are done. A file that is created or opened in the page cache, but not written to, might result in a zero-byte file at a later read. However...

"An S-record file consists of a sequence of specially formatted ASCII character strings. An S-record will be less than or equal to 78 bytes in length"....

the command processor. Thus, its output can be redirected to create a zero-byte file. REM is useful in logged sessions or screen-captures. One might add...

used 1,024-byte blocks rather than 512-byte blocks, making the maximum 4,311,812,608 bytes or approximately 4 GiB (4.294 GB). Maximum file size on a VMFS...

ID in the file footer. If a TGA file contains a footer, it is likely to be a TGA version 2 file. The footer is the final 26 bytes of the file, of which...

eight bits. If there are fewer than three bytes left to encode (or in total), the remaining buffer bits will be zero. The buffer is then used, six bits at...

store arbitrarily large integers in a small number of bytes. LEB128 is used in the DWARF debug file format and the WebAssembly binary encoding for all integer...

these follows a 2-byte ("short") unsigned integer that is the "attribute byte count" – in the standard format, this should be zero because most software...

reserved, must be zero ULONG _ulReserved1; // [24H,04] reserved, must be zero FSINDEX _csectDir; // [28H,04] must be zero for 512-byte sectors, // number...

joiner strongly preferred. Byte order mark, which uses U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE (ZWNBSP) character Zero-width space Zero-width joiner, which in scripts...

reported in blocks of 512 bytes, and that at a minimum, it reports the file system names and the amount of free space. Using 512-bytes as the unit of measure...

platforms. Each ELF file is made up of one ELF header, followed by file data. The data can include: Program header table, describing zero or more memory segments...

279 (StripByteCounts). The StripOffsets point to the blocks of image data, the StripByteCounts say how long each of these blocks are (as stored in the file),...

traditionally 512 bytes for hard disk drives (HDDs), and 2048 bytes for CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs and BD-ROMs. Newer HDDs and SSDs use 4096 byte (4 KiB) sectors...

If the file is opened in some other application, that application will have its own use for each byte: maybe the application will treat each byte as a number...