Reverse-engineered specification of the recipe database format used by Micro Cookbook (Pinpoint Publishing, c. 1988–1994) on MS-DOS. This is sufficient to (a) reimplement the recipe extraction in any language, and (b) understand the on-disk structures well enough to recreate the original program's behaviour.
Status of knowledge: the record/field encoding is fully decoded and
validated against the program's own print-out. The 32 KB header index
region, SCREEN.TXT, and CONTROL.TXT are not decoded (not required for