ISO/IEC 8211:1994

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

Publication date:   Sep 29, 1994

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90.93   Standard confirmed   Jun 21, 2000

ISO/IEC

ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information technology

International Standard

35.080   Software

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Scope

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.

Life cycle

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WITHDRAWN
ISO 8211:1985

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PUBLISHED
ISO/IEC 8211:1994
90.93 Standard confirmed
Jun 21, 2000