Format
ESRI MapInfo Export File
Summary
- Name
- ESRI MapInfo Export File
- Identifiers
- PUID: x-fmt/231
- Format type
- GIS
- Description
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- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
mif - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
ESRI MapInfo Export File No.1
- Description
- MIF file header indicating Version, Charset and number of Columns.
- Provenance
- Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute (Candidate Internal Signatures for File Formats in PRONOM Registry; 05/06/2010).
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 10
- Byte Sequence
56(45|65)(52|72)(53|73)(49|69)??(4E|6E){5-9}(43|63)(48|68)(41|61)(52|72)(53|73)(45|65)(54|74)*43(4F|6F)(4C|6C)(55|75)(4D|6D)(4E|6E)(53|73)- Endianness
- None
ESRI MapInfo Export File No.2
- Description
- MIF file header indicating Version, Charset and number of Columns.
- Provenance
- Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute (Candidate Internal Signatures for File Formats in PRONOM Registry; 05/06/2010).
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
56(45|65)(52|72)(53|73)(49|69)??(4E|6E){5-9}(43|63)(48|68)(41|61)(52|72)(53|73)(45|65)(54|74)*63(4F|6F)(4C|6C)(55|75)(4D|6D)(4E|6E)(53|73)- Endianness
- None
ESRI MapInfo Export File No.3
- Description
- MIF file header indicating Version, Charset and number of Columns.
- Provenance
- Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute (Candidate Internal Signatures for File Formats in PRONOM Registry; 05/06/2010).
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
76(45|65)(52|72)(53|73)(49|69)??(4E|6E){5-9}(43|63)(48|68)(41|61)(52|72)(53|73)(45|65)(54|74)*43(4F|6F)(4C|6C)(55|75)(4D|6D)(4E|6E)(53|73)- Endianness
- None
ESRI MapInfo Export File No.4
- Description
- MIF file header indicating Version, Charset and number of Columns.
- Provenance
- Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute (Candidate Internal Signatures for File Formats in PRONOM Registry; 05/06/2010).
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
76(45|65)(52|72)(53|73)(49|69)??(4E|6E){5-9}(43|63)(48|68)(41|61)(52|72)(53|73)(45|65)(54|74)*63(4F|6F)(4C|6C)(55|75)(4D|6D)(4E|6E)(53|73)- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V94
- Release date
- 17 September 2018
-
Updated
ESRI MapInfo Export File: Slightly adjusted wildcard ranges within signatures. Requested by National Library of Australia.
-
V45
- Release date
- 6 December 2010
-
Added signature
ESRI MapInfo Export File: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.