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A "BAR I.F.," or Binary Artifact Reference Implementation File, is a special platform-independent
schema file for a particular data format. All you have to do is load this file into an application that
uses the BAR engine, and presto! Now you fully support a data format.
No tedious DLLs to install, which can break. No obscure codecs, which can be hard to obtain and
support. No registry hacks necessary. Analysis, understanding, and intended usage of a data
format become fully available, instantly, to you, the user.
Go to I.F. download page
schema file for a particular data format. All you have to do is load this file into an application that
uses the BAR engine, and presto! Now you fully support a data format.
No tedious DLLs to install, which can break. No obscure codecs, which can be hard to obtain and
support. No registry hacks necessary. Analysis, understanding, and intended usage of a data
format become fully available, instantly, to you, the user.
Go to I.F. download page
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BARfly is a software application that acts as the principal front-end viewer and editor application
for the Binary Artifact Reference system, or BAR. With BARfly, you can edit nearly anything at all--
any binary file--in a detailed, structured format.
Before BARfly, there were only three ways you could view or edit a binary file:
There have been serious implementation issues over the years. The proliferation of so many
different types of binary file formats has created "implementation chaos." Accurate and up-to-date
knowledge of so many file formats is difficult or impossible to obtain. It is difficult to standardize
many formats as they "evolve," since one modification to a file format can "break" all existing
applications. Applications that read, write, or dump binary data are often platform-dependent, and
they are frequently designed to perform only a handful of actions that do not directly facilitate
piecemeal editing.
for the Binary Artifact Reference system, or BAR. With BARfly, you can edit nearly anything at all--
any binary file--in a detailed, structured format.
Before BARfly, there were only three ways you could view or edit a binary file:
 | Write an application that reads or writes a binary file of a specific format. | |
| Use a binary hex editor. | |
| Use one or more "dump" applications, which translate the binary data to and from a text | |
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There have been serious implementation issues over the years. The proliferation of so many
different types of binary file formats has created "implementation chaos." Accurate and up-to-date
knowledge of so many file formats is difficult or impossible to obtain. It is difficult to standardize
many formats as they "evolve," since one modification to a file format can "break" all existing
applications. Applications that read, write, or dump binary data are often platform-dependent, and
they are frequently designed to perform only a handful of actions that do not directly facilitate
piecemeal editing.
But all of these problems can be attributed to just a
single reason: the lack of any consistent "schema"
for virtually any binary file. The Binary Artifact
Reference system, or BAR, provides a "universal
schema" for characterizing the data in binary files in
such a fashion that applications can make nearly any
type of data ready-to-access.
Now, you can treat just about any file as a database,
like the "exploded view" of a BMP file to the left.
What BARfly does is employ BAR to give the user a
powerful user interface for viewing and editing binary
data. Instead of replacing binary formats with
text-based formats such as XML, BARfly intends to
create a workable knowledge-base for just the binary
files as they currently exist, without having to convert
everything to and from a text format.
Learn More...
single reason: the lack of any consistent "schema"
for virtually any binary file. The Binary Artifact
Reference system, or BAR, provides a "universal
schema" for characterizing the data in binary files in
such a fashion that applications can make nearly any
type of data ready-to-access.
Now, you can treat just about any file as a database,
like the "exploded view" of a BMP file to the left.
What BARfly does is employ BAR to give the user a
powerful user interface for viewing and editing binary
data. Instead of replacing binary formats with
text-based formats such as XML, BARfly intends to
create a workable knowledge-base for just the binary
files as they currently exist, without having to convert
everything to and from a text format.
Learn More...
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