ISO/IEC 8211:1994

Information technology -- Specification for a data descriptive file for information interchange

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General information

Number of Pages: 69

Edition: 2 (Monolingual)	ICS: 35.080
Status: Published	Stage: 90.93 (2000-06-21)
TC/SC: JTC 1

Abstract

Cancels and replaces the first edition (1985). Specifies an interchange format to facilitate the moving of files or parts of files containing data records between computer systems. Specifies: media-independent file and data record descriptions for information interchange; the description of data elements, vectors, arrays and hierarchies containing character strings, bit strings and numeric forms; a data descriptive file; a data descriptive record; three levels of complexity of file and record structure; FTAM unstructured and structured document types.

Revision information

Revises: ISO 8211:1985

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