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3 unusual facts about File format


Association for Standardisation of Automation and Measuring Systems

The equipment used there had been mostly purpose-built solutions, with widely incompatible interfaces and data formats, which severely impeded interconnectivity and exchange of data.

Environmental data rescue

Environmental data rescue is a collection of processes, including photography and scanning, that stores historical and modern environmental data in a usable format.

Harold Lohner

Each contains over 60 fonts for Mac and Windows in TrueType and PostScript Type 1 formats.


Anti-pattern

JAR hell: Overutilization of the multiple JAR files, usually causing versioning and location problems because of misunderstanding of the Java class loading model

Artpack

An artpack is an archive of computer artwork which is distributed in a compressed format such as ZIP or RAR.

Cheetah News

Cheetah News is a free web-based personal news aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online.

Data exchange

The term is also applied to any file format that can be read by more than one program, including proprietary formats such as Microsoft Office documents.

Design rule for Camera File system

Design rule for Camera File system (DCF) is a JEITA specification (number CP-3461) which defines a file system for digital cameras, including the directory structure, file naming method, character set, file format, and metadata format.

Ezycom

Ezycom supports several features that make it "easy" to use (hence the name) including: multinode operation (up to 255 nodes depending on license type), network and multitasker support, Fidonet-compatible message base, built-in echomail and netmail tossers, built-in file transfer protocols and QWK/Blue Wave offline mail support (including offline netmail support).

FastEcho

You could also use FastEcho if you were a BBS user and did all your mail stuff offline like QWK and Blue Wave users did.

General feature format

The general feature format (gene-finding format, generic feature format, GFF) is a file format used for describing genes and other features of DNA, RNA and protein sequences.

GetDeb

Debian packages (in combination with APT) package software such that it can easily be installed in a user-friendly point-and-click manner on Debian (and subsequently, several other Linux distributions), removing hurdles for less-technical users.

I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse

The download-only package is a .zip file containing a 192kbit/s encoded .mp3 file, a 6-minute QuickTime slide-show of black-and-white photographs set to ambient sounds, and a PDF of the CD insert.

Image file formats

Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) specification is an attempt at standardizing a raw image format to be used by cameras, or for archival storage of image data converted from undocumented raw image formats, and is used by several niche and minority camera manufacturers including Pentax, Leica, and Samsung.

Integrative bioinformatics

Furthermore, the data are scattered over a plethora of both public and private repositories, and are stored using a large number of different formats.

KIO

KIO slaves are programs that provide support for individual protocols (e.g. HTTP, FTP, SMB, SSH, FISH, SFTP, SVN, TAR).

Koalapop

Based on the street art, skating, punk and rave subcultures of the Bay Area, California, the website features a variety of shirts, hoodies, hats, stickers, printed autographed art, etc., as well as free content such as an RSS feed e-magazine, "viral art" (art which is free to distribute non-commercially), e-stickers, music playlists, and links to videos and other internet content.

MAME

A game usually consists of multiple ROM and PAL images; these are collectively stored inside a single ZIP file, constituting a ROM set.

Markus Kaarlonen

Kaarlonen catapulted to considerable underground fame with his Amiga MOD music in the early 1990s.

Netlabel

A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats (such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV) over the Internet.

New Executable

The New Executable (abbreviated NE or NewEXE) is a 16-bit .exe file format, a successor to the DOS MZ executable format.

Offline reader

The two most common formats for FidoNet BBS's were Blue Wave and QWK.

Permabit

Plug-ins are provided by the Albireo SDK to support CFB, PDF, TAR, VHD, and ZIP formats.

Rogers Cadenhead

Rogers Cadenhead (b. April 13, 1967 in Dallas, Texas, USA) is a computer book author and web publisher who is currently chairman of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that assists developers in using the RSS 2.0 specification.

Star Control II

Music is in Protracker-MOD format which uses digitized instrument samples while most of PC game music still relied on FM-synthesis based instruments at the time.

Top Gear Rally

The electronic XM music was composed by Barry Leitch, who also worked on Super Nintendo Top Gear releases.

WikiPathways

In addition to various primary data formats (e.g. GPML, BioPAX, Reactome, KEGG), WikiPathways supports a variety of ways to integrate and interact with pathway content.


see also

3GP and 3G2

3G2 (3GPP2 file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the 3GPP2 for 3G CDMA2000 multimedia services.

3GPP2 file format was designed for CDMA-based Phones and may have the filename extension .3g2

ADIF

Audio Data Interchange Format, a file format to exchange Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) data

Binary File Descriptor library

Internally, BFD translates the data from the abstract view into the details of the bit/byte layout required by the target processor and file format.

Camera-ready

# It is created with a software program commonly used in the printing industry, such as LaTeX, InDesign (Adobe), Illustrator (Adobe), Freehand (Adobe/Macromedia), Quark XPress (Quark, Inc), and exported in a commonly used file format, such as EPS, PDF and sometimes TIFF.

Canon PowerShot S100

Raw image file format; one of few "point and shoot" cameras to have raw formatting.

Canon PowerShot S95

Raw image file format; one of few "point-and-shoot" cameras to have raw formatting.

Component Manager

Within QuickTime, there were image codecs, media handlers, media data handlers, video digitizer drivers, file format importers and exporters, and many others.

Comtrade

The IEEE Power Quality Subcommittee of the IEEE Power & Energy Society has also developed a file format called the Power Quality Data Interchange Format (PQDIF) that is similar to COMTRADE in structure but is used primarily to convey power quality data instead of transient disturbance data.

The COMTRADE file format has been standardised by the Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) of the IEEE Power & Energy Society as C37.111.

DTBook

DTBook was developed by the Daisy Consortium as an accessible file format similar to HTML, with special regard to the requirements of the visually impaired.

Exchangeable image file format

The Exif specification describes the RIFF file format used for WAV audio files, and defines a number of tags for storing meta information such as artist, copyright, creation date, and more in these files.

EXR

OpenEXR, a High Dynamic Range image file format standardized by Industrial Light and Magic

ISO image

This file format can be used to create Live USB environments through a low-level copy (for example with the Unix dd command) to a USB key.

MilkShape 3D

As well as supporting its own file-format, Milkshape 3D is able to export to morph target animation like the ones in the Quake model formats or to export to skeletal animations like Half-Life, Genesis3D, Unreal, etc.

MindMup

The software supports importing and exporting maps in the Freemind file format.

NES Sound Format

NES Sound Format (NSF or .nsf) is the filename extension of the audio file format originally designated as NESM (Nintendo Entertainment System Music) by the inventor Kevin Horton.

PKG

.pkg, a file format used by Apple to install applications and Sony's PlayStation 3 to install games onto the PS3's hard disk

Ray tracing hardware

Software provided integration with Maya (see Autodesk Maya) and Max (see Autodesk 3ds Max) data formats, and utilized the Renderman scene description language for sending data to the processors (the .RIB or Renderman Interface Bytestream file format).

Sony Ericsson K750

The phone has good all-round support for many versions of the MP3 file format, however support for WAV encoded files is not as extensive

Source Code Control System

However, its file format is still used internally by a few other revision control programs, including BitKeeper and TeamWare.

SRAW

Canon sRAW, digital camera "small RAW" file format introduced on the Canon EOS 40D camera

United Kingdom Census 2011

The statistical authorities are also making available bulk data in Comma-separated values (CSV) file format which can be downloaded from online data warehouse facilities.

VQA

.VQA, or Vector Quantized Animation, a file format for video encoding

Wavefront .obj file

OBJ (or .OBJ) is a geometry definition file format first developed by Wavefront Technologies for its Advanced Visualizer animation package.

WMF

Windows Metafile, a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems