Explore: Data Files

programs work with data files. Data files can be stored in two ways: Text files; Binary files. A text file (also called ASCII files) stores information

consistently storing valuable data files (or copies of them) on a different partition from the replaceable OS system files. Another scenario involves a

Geographic Data Files (GDF) is an interchange file format for geographic data. In contrast with generic GIS formats, GDF provides detailed rules for data capture

compressed file ARC – pre-Zip data compression ARJ – ARJ compressed file BZ2 – bzip2 CAB – A cabinet file is a library of compressed files stored as one file. Cabinet

between two files. The rsync protocol uses a rolling hash function to compare two files on two distant computers with low communication overhead. File comparison

files, OpenDocument files, PDF) images, (e.g. JPEG, PNG) Video files, (e.g. AVI, MP4) and audio files. (e.g. WAV, MP3) Metadata may be added to files

filename. Just as words can be written on paper, so too can data be written to a computer file. Files can be shared with and transferred between computers and

several files hidden from the user to store metadata about other files stored on the drive which can help improve speed and performance when reading data. NTFS

The plain-text character of CSV files largely avoids incompatibilities such as byte-order and word size. The files are largely human-readable, so it

stand-alone files containing key-value pairs. The external files may use Forms Data Format (FDF) and XML Forms Data Format (XFDF) files. The usage rights