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@@ -239,6 +239,20 @@ Or in hexadecimal this would be:
 For now the only version of the **zarf format** is version 1.
 So you should just look for the "1" character (i.e., hexadecimal `0x31`).
 
+### Writing The First and Second Lines
+
+If you are creating a **zarf** file, then you can create the first and second lines of a **zarf** file with code like the following —
+
+In the Go programming language, it would look like:
+
+```go
+var writer io.Writer = os.Stdout // you can change this from os.Stdout to a file
+
+// ...
+
+fmt.Fprintln(writer, "ZARF/1")
+fmt.Fprintln(writer)
+```