Format
Interchange File
Summary
- Name
- Interchange File
- Identifiers
- PUID: x-fmt/157
- Format type
- Aggregate
- Description
- This is an outline record only, and requires further details, research or authentication to provide information that will enable users to further understand the format and to assess digital preservation risks associated with it if appropriate. If you are able to help by supplying any additional information concerning this entry, please return to the main PRONOM page and select ‘Add an Entry’.
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
iff - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
- Is supertype of
Internal signatures
Interchange File
- Description
- All interchange file format files must start with either 'FORM', 'LIST', or 'CAT ' values. This is a generic signature that will identify Interchange Files which do not have a more complete and specific signature assigned to them within PRONOM.
- Provenance
- Ongoing DROID research
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
(464F524D|4C495354|43415420)00- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V51
- Release date
- 15 July 2011
-
Added signature
Interchange File: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.