ISO/IEC 8211:1994
ISO/IEC 8211:1994

ISO/IEC 8211:1994

September 1994
International standard Current

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

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.

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Publication date

September 1994

Number of pages

69 p.

Reference

ISO/IEC 8211:1994

ICS Codes

35.080   Software

Print number

2
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Information technology — Specification for a data descriptive file for information interchange

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.

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