ECMA 208 : 1ED 94
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SYSTEM-INDEPENDENT DATA FORMAT - SIDF
12-01-2013
Section 1 - General
1 Scope
2 Conformance
2.1 Conformance of Media Volumes
2.2 Conformance of an originating system
2.3 Conformance of a receiving system
3 References
4 Definitions
4.1 Blank Space
4.2 byte
4.3 Byte Sequence
4.4 Field
4.5 Field Identifier (FID)
4.6 Field Table
4.7 File
4.8 file mark
4.9 File Set
4.10 Interleaved File Sets
4.11 Iterated Field Set
4.12 operating system
4.13 originating system
4.14 Relative Byte Position
4.15 receiving system
4.16 Sector
4.17 Sector Number
4.18 Source
4.18 standard for recording
4.20 Volume
4.21 Volume Set
4.22 Volume Set Sequence Number
5 General conventions and notations
5.1 Representation of numbers
5.2 Names
5.3 Structures
5.4 Fields
5.5 Field Identifiers (FIDs)
5.6 Field Tables
5.7 Headers
5.8 Indices
5.9 Structure description schema
Section 2 - Requirements for the media
6 Specific conventions and notations for the recorded format
6.1 Recording of numbers
6.2 Character sets and coding
6.3 Character set specification (CHAR SPEC)
6.4 CS0 character set
6.5 CS1 character set
6.6 CS2 character set
6.7 CS3 character set
6.8 CS4 character set
6.9 CS5 character set
6.10 CS6 character set
6.11 CS7 character set
6.12 CS8 character set
6.13 Source Name Space specification
6.14 NS0 Name Space
6.15 NS1 Name Space
6.16 NS2 Name Space
6.17 NS3 Name Space
6.18 NS4 Name Space
6.19 NS5 Name Space
6.20 NSFC Name Space
6.21 NSFE Name Space
6.22 Strings
6.23 Resynchronization Pattern
7 Timestamp
7.1 Type and Time Zone (RBP 0)
7.2 Year (RBP 2)
7.3 Month (RBP 4)
7.4 Day (RBP 5)
7.5 Hour (RBP 6)
7.6 Minute (RBP 7)
7.7 Second (RBP 8)
7.8 Centiseconds (RBP 9)
7.9 Hundreds of microseconds (RBP 10)
7.10 Microseconds (RBP 11)
8 Requirements for a standard for recording
9 Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
10 Organization of Information on a Volume
10.1 Recording of Sectors
10.2 Organization of a Volume
10.3 Volume Sets
10.4 Recording of Fields
10.5 Recording of Field Tables
10.6 Recording of Buffers
10.7 Recording of file marks
11 Organization of Information within a File Set
11.1 Organization of a File Set
11.2 File Sets spanning multiple Volumes
11.3 Interleaving
12 Organization of information within a File
13 Field Table description
13.1 Volume Header Field Table
13.2 Volume Trailer Field Table
13.3 Blank Space Field Table
13.4 Buffer Header Field Table
13.5 Volume Index Field Table
13.6 Volume Subindex Field Table
13.7 File Set Header Field Table
13.8 File Set Continuation Header Field Table
13.9 File Set Trailer Field Table
13.10 File Set Index Field Table
13.11 File Set Subindex Field Table
13.12 File Header Field Table
13.13 File Continuation Header Field Table
13.14 File Information Field Table
13.15 File Data
13.16 Levels of partition interchange
14 Requirements for systems
14.1 Requirements for the description of systems
14.2 Requirements for an originating system
14.3 Requirements for a receiving system
Annex A - Structure of the Field Identifier
Annex B - Field Data Length Structure
Annex C - Field specification
Annex D - Numerical List of the Field Identifiers specified
by this ECMA Standard
Annex E - Numerical List of Field Identifiers which are
deprecated or not specified by this ECMA Standard
Specifies a logical format for information interchange and secondary data storage. Also specifies the organization of the information on target media, and requirements for Originating and receiving systems for the processing of the information.
Committee |
TC 15
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DocumentType |
Standard
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PublisherName |
European Computer Manufacturers Association
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Status |
Current
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Standards | Relationship |
ISO/IEC 14863:1996 | Corresponds |
ISO/IEC 9945-1:2003 | Information technology Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) Part 1: Base Definitions |
ECMA 94 : 2ED 86 | 8-BIT SINGLE-BYTE CODED GRAPHIC CHARACTER SETS - LATIN ALPHABETS NO. 1 TO NO. 4 |
ECMA 167 : 3ED 97 | VOLUME AND FILE STRUCTURE OF WRITE-ONCE AND REWRITABLE MEDIA USING NON-SEQUENTIAL RECORDING FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE |
ISO/IEC 13800:1996 | Information technology Procedure for the registration of identifiers and attributes for volume and file structure |
ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 | Information technology Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane |
ECMA 35 : 6ED 94 | CHARACTER CODE STRUCTURE AND EXTENSION TECHNIQUES |
ECMA 6 : 6ED 91 | 7-BIT CODED CHARACTER SET |
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