WordStar for Windows Ver
application/octet-stream
Magic Bytes
Offset: 0
29 15 71 E0 BE FF E5 69 6E 5A 69 70
WordStar for Windows Version 2 is a proprietary word processing document format developed by WordStar International for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It was primarily utilized for creating, editing, and formatting complex text documents during the early 1990s. As a legacy format, it is now largely obsolete and generally considered safe, though it lacks the security features or encryption commonly found in contemporary document files.
Validation Code
How to validate .ws2 files in Python
Python
def is_ws2(file_path: str) -> bool:
"""Check if file is a valid WS2 by magic bytes."""
signature = bytes([0x29, 0x15, 0x71, 0xE0, 0xBE, 0xFF, 0xE5, 0x69, 0x6E, 0x5A, 0x69, 0x70])
with open(file_path, "rb") as f:
return f.read(12) == signatureHow to validate .ws2 files in Node.js
Node.js
function isWS2(buffer: Buffer): boolean {
const signature = Buffer.from([0x29, 0x15, 0x71, 0xE0, 0xBE, 0xFF, 0xE5, 0x69, 0x6E, 0x5A, 0x69, 0x70]);
return buffer.subarray(0, 12).equals(signature);
}
Go
func IsWS2(data []byte) bool {
signature := []byte{0x29, 0x15, 0x71, 0xE0, 0xBE, 0xFF, 0xE5, 0x69, 0x6E, 0x5A, 0x69, 0x70}
if len(data) < 12 {
return false
}
return bytes.Equal(data[:12], signature)
}API Endpoint
GET
/api/v1/ws2
curl https://filesignature.org/api/v1/ws2