meaning of CWS & FWS in flash header

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in SWF file format ... header contain signature either ( CWS for compressed ) or ( FWS for uncompressed ) , I want to know What is meant by ( CWS & FWS )
I mean ( CWS & FWS ) abbreviation for what ???

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Posted 13-Jun-11 23:02pm

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Kenneth Bitgood · Answer 1 · 2014-12-11T11:20:00

LMAO at the solution from Christian Graus! What a troll. It's so funny that I feel like I have to say something and since I'm saying something I might as well answer the question (even though this post is old).

From the Adobe SWF Documentation:
"In SWF files, bytes are swapped whenever reading words and dwords such that a 32-bit value B1B2B3B4 is written as B4B3B2B1, and a 16-bit value B1B2 is written as B2B1. Single bytes are written unchanged since there is no bit-swapping. The reason for this is the differences in storage and retrieval between the Mac and PC processors."

Following this same thinking if you apply byte swapping to the signature at the start of the file it is actually read as either SWF, SWC, or SWZ

SWF stands for "Shockwave Flash" (This is for historical reasons from FutureWave Software to Macromedia to Adobe)

Knowing all this, the SWC and SWZ abbreviations are pretty simple. They are most likely "SWF Compressed" and "SWF Zipped".

Christian Graus · Answer 2 · 2011-06-13T23:05:00

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Who cares ? How does knowing what the abbreviation is, change anything for you ?

FWS stands for flexible work schedule. I found that in seconds with google. If you can't use google, then the meaning of an acronym is the least of your issues.

Posted 13-Jun-11 23:05pm

Christian Graus