Format
Data Interchange Format
Summary
- Name
- Data Interchange Format
- Identifiers
- PUID: x-fmt/41
- Format type
- Text (Structured)
- Description
- Data Interchange Format (.dif) is a text file format used to import/export single spreadsheets between spreadsheet programs (OpenOffice.org Calc, Excel, Gnumeric, StarCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, FileMaker, dBase, Framework, Multiplan, etc.). It is also known as Navy DIF. One limitation is that DIF format cannot handle multiple spreadsheets in a single workbook.
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
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dif - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
Data Interchange Format
- Description
- Header begins with TABLE on first line, the pair 0,1 on the second line, a title string in quotes on the third line and VECTORS on the fourth line.
- 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
5441424C450D0A302C310D0A22{1-100}220D0A564543544F52530D0A- Endianness
- Little-endian