Understand, in a Nutshell

The Understand project aims to document a number of file formats/file systems, protocols and methods of integrating software, to provide and coordinate otherwise missing documentation.

Just what is this thing, anyway?

• It's a place where folks can easily find and share "live" examples of file formats, file systems, and network protocols
• Somewhere to fill in the missing pieces, when it comes to documenting the integration of disparate pieces of software, or knowledge of various bits of data

What isn't Understand?

• A flying toy (to quote Toy Story)
• A replacement for every other knowledgebase or publicly available specification on the planet
• A replacement for the (rather nifty) service at pcapr.net, or the Wireshark Wiki
• Google or Wolfram|Alpha (seriously ;))

Sounds great, how can I help?

By virtue of being a project on Google Code, commit/modification access is limited to people who have e-mail addresses connected to the project. This also ensures that we don't get wiki/content spam, as a nice side-effect.

If you want commit access, please send an e-mail to tyson DOT key AT gmail DOT com, containing the phrase "Wiki Commit Access" in the Subject. You can also ask in the FreeNode (IRC) channel: #understand.