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datastream

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

sequence of bytes . This term is used rather than "file" to describe a byte sequence that may be only a portion of a file. It is also used to emphasize that the sequence of bytes might be generated and consumed "on the fly", never appearing in a stored file at all.
PNG datastream

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

result of encoding a PNG image . A PNG datastream consists of a PNG signature followed by a sequence of chunks .

The Glossary System has been built by Pierre Candela during an internship in W3C; it's now maintained by Dominique Hazael-Massieux

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