Unreferenced date August 2008 lowercase title format Image Formatting c drive.JPG thumb Formatting a hard drive using the code format code command Deleted image removed Image Format.JPG Format options available on Microsoft Windows Xp right Format is a command line interface command line utility included in Microsoft DOS , IBM OS 2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems to produce Format computing disk formatting . The command computing command will perform the following actions by default on a floppy drive, hard drive, solid states USB , or other magnetic medium. It will not perform this function on optical media. The File Allocation Table FAT entries are cleared by changing them to 0x00. The root directory is cleared out by changing any values found to 0x00. Format then checks each Cluster file system cluster to see if it is good or bad and marks it in the FAT. Optionally, by adding s, for system it can also install a volume boot record . When this option is included, bootstrap code is written to the first sector of the volume and possibly elsewhere as well . FORMAT always writes a BIOS Parameter Block to the first sector, with or without the S option. Another option Q allows for what Microsoft calls Quick Format . With this option the command will not do the 2nd and 3rd step, above. Citation needed date April 2009 Data previously written to the media will not be altered by the command. Any storage device must have its medium structured to be useful. This process is referred to as creating the file system in Unix, Linux, or BSD. Under these systems the more robust command ... 7 How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk http www.computerhope.com formathl.htm Microsoft DOS format command http pcsupport.about.com od termsf p format rc.htm Recovery Console format command Windows commands Category DOS commands Category DOS software ... storage software stub es Format fa Format ko FORMAT.COM pt Format tr Format ... more details
Data format in information technology can refer to either one of Data type , constraint placed upon the interpretation of data in a type system Signal electrical engineering , a format for signal data used in signal processing Recording format , a format for encoding data for storage on a storage medium File format , a format for encoding data for storage in a computer file Container format digital , a format for encoding data for storage by means of a standardized audio video codecs file format Content format , a format for converting data to information Audio format , a format for processing sound audio data Video format , a format for processing video data Disambig simple Data format uk ... more details
FASTQ format is a text based File formatformat for storing both a biological sequence usually nucleotide sequence and its corresponding quality scores. Both the sequence letter and quality score are encoded with a single ASCII character for brevity. It was originally developed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to bundle a FASTA format FASTA sequence and its quality data, but has recently become the de facto standard for storing the output of high throughput sequencing instruments such as the Illumina ... file format for sequences with quality scores, and the Solexa Illumina FASTQ variants. Nucleic Acids Research, http dx.doi.org 10.1093 nar gkp1137 doi 10.1093 nar gkp1137 ref . Format A FASTQ file normally ... and an optional description like a FASTA format FASTA title line . Line 2 is the raw sequence ... 1.8 the format of the line has changed pre EAS139 136 FC706VJ 2 2104 15343 197393 1 Y 18 ATCACG ... 15006500 A.pdf PDF ref . Encoding Sanger format can encode a Phred quality score from 0 to 93 using ... are possible in assemblies or read maps . Also used in SAM format ref name Sequence Alignment Map format Sequence Alignment Map format Version 1.0, dated August 2009 http samtools.sourceforge.net ... CASAVA will directly produce fastq in Sanger format, according to the announcement on seqanswers.com ... Illumina 1.0 format can encode a Solexa Illumina quality score from 5 to 62 using ASCII 59 to 126 although in raw read data Solexa scores from 5 to 40 only are expected Illumina 1.3 format can ... values are those of the Sanger format. Alignment tools differ in their preferred version of the quality ... for a FASTQ file, but .fq, .fastq, and .txt are commonly used. Format converters BioPython Biopython ... to Sanger See also FASTA format List of file formats Biology List of file formats for molecular ... tool for high throughput sequence data http prinseq.sourceforge.net PRINSEQ can be used for QC ... Format Category Bioinformatics Category Biological sequence format ... more details
Bitmap format is Generic term for file format s for raster graphics images Specific term for Windows bitmap BMP or XBM X Bitmap XBM file format disambig ... more details
Landscape format is a format of printed material of which the width of the article is larger than the height. This is the opposite of Portrait format Category Printing publishing stub de Querformat ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name The Format Type Album Artist AZ rapper AZ Cover Theformat.jpg Background lightsteelblue Released November 7, 2006 Recorded 2006 Genre Hip hop music Hip hop Length Label Quiet Money, Fast Life Music Producer M.O.P. Lil Fame , Face Defeat, Emile producer Emile , J. Cardim, Phonte , Statik Selektah, DJ Premier Reviews About.com Rating 4 5 http rap.about.com od albumreviews fr AZTheFormat.htm 2006 Cokemachineglow 55 100 http www.cokemachineglow.com record review 1031 az 2006 HipHopDX Rating 4 5 http www.hiphopdx.com index reviews id.713 2006 RapReviews 8.0 10 http www.rapreviews.com archive 2006 11 theformat.html 2006 XXL magazine XXL Rating 3 5 L http xxlmag.com online ?p 5912 2006 Last album A.W.O.L. album A.W.O.L. br 2005 This album The Format br 2006 Next album Undeniable AZ album Undeniable br 2008 The Format is the sixth studio album by rapper AZ rapper AZ , released on November 7, 2006. The album features production from Fizzy Womack better known as Lil Fame of M.O.P. , Face Defeat, Emile, J. Cardim, Phonte , Statik Selektah and DJ Premier . Guest appearances are provided by M.O.P. , Little Brother band Little Brother , as well as artists on AZ s new label, Quiet Money Records. The album s lead single is its title track, The Format , produced by DJ Premier , with Vendetta as its B Side . http www.allhiphop.com hiphopnews ?ID 6202 The Format also features the bonus track Royal Salute , a retaliation to 50 Cent s song What If , which included a line aimed at AZ. On October 7, 2007, Quiet Money released The Format Special Edition ... Do extra9 small J. Cardim small length9 3 18 title10 The Format extra10 small DJ Premier small length10 ... date June 2011 The Format This Side of Forever by Roberta Flack Survival of the Fittest by Mobb ... Hip Hop Albums Top Independent Albums 2006 The Format 59 35 External links http www.discogs.com AZ The Format master 92943 The Format at Discogs AZ rapper DEFAULTSORT Format, The Category 2006 albums ... more details
Multiple issues refimprove February 2008 restructure February 2008 A format war describes competition ... storage device s and recording format s for electronic media . It is often characterized by political .... Developing companies may be characterized as engaging in a format war if they actively .... A format war emergence can be explained because each vendor is trying to exploit cross side network effects in a two sided market . There are also a social force to stop a format war when ... ref for the format users. 19th Century Rail gauge in North America Russian gauge vs. standard gauge ... medium of the 20th century and beyond, a looming format war involving paper roll music for player pianos was averted when industry leaders agreed upon a common format at the Buffalo Convention held in Buffalo, New York in 1908. The agreed upon format was a roll 11.25 inches wide with holes spaced ... recording media formats phonograph cylinders cylinder records versus Gramaphone record disk records . In 1877 Thomas Edison invented sound recording technology using a tin cylinder record, and soon thereafter ... edge to the short inner portion nearest the center and disk record players could not make recordings ... rpm gramophone record formats lateral versus vertical hill and dale groove cutting. When Edison finally ... from playing inappropriate foreign records. In 1929 Thomas Edison bowed out of the record industry .... In addition, there were several more minor format wars between the various brands using .... 1940s Vinyl record formats Columbia Records 12 inch 30 cm Long Play LP 33 rpm microgroove record versus RCA Victor s 7 inch 17.5 cm 45 rpm Extended Play EP during the years 1948 1950. Ended in a compromise because each format found a separate marketing niche, and eventually record players were designed to play either type. Vinyl records are still used by niche audiences ... the existing format incompatibility between the original 441 scan line RCA system and systems ... more details
MPS Mathematical Programming System is a file format for presenting and archiving linear programming LP and mixed integer programming problems. Overview File Neos stats 2011 01.png right thumb 352px Argonne National Laboratory User facilities NEOS input statistics for January 2011. The format was named after an early IBM LP product ref Citation title Optimization Subroutine Library, Guide and Reference, document SC23 0519 publisher IBM author IBM ref and has emerged as a de facto standard ASCII medium among most of the commercial LP solvers. Essentially all commercial LP solvers accept this format, and it is also accepted by the open source COIN OR system. Other public domain software may require a customized reader routine in order to read MPS files. However with the acceptance of algebraic modeling language s MPS usage has declined. For example, according to the Argonne National Laboratory User facilities NEOS server statistics in January 2011 less than 1 of submissions were in MPS form ..., etc. receive names. MPS is an old format, so it is set up for punch cards Fields start in column ... for a post processing code to read. MPS format Here is a little sample model written in MPS format ... is the same model written out in an equation oriented format Optimize COST XONE 4 YTWO 9 ZTHREE ... it is not specified. Strangely, nothing in MPS format specifies the direction of optimization ... value, but the values of the variables themselves will be correct. Variables The NAME record ... not have its limitations and is supported by most solvers is the nl format nl file format . Extensions Many LP products include extensions to the MPS format. The free format MPS allows for long ..., the format is still in general use. See also Linear programming http lpsolve.sourceforge.net 5.5 mps format.htm MPS file format a description of the format by the authors of http sourceforge.net projects lpsolve lp solve nl format modern alternative to MPS AIMMS AMPL General Algebraic Modeling ... more details
Container format may refer to Recording format , for holding analog or digitally recorded data on a recording medium Container format digital , for holding digitally encoded data in the form of a software data file Modulation Carrier signal format , for holding data during active wireless transmission Multiplexing Multiplexing format , for combining data for active transmission Types of Shipping container Types of shipping containers shipping containers disambig ... more details
may be achieved in one format. For example, a text encoded page may contain HTML and XML encoding, combined in a plain text file format, using either EBCDIC or ASCII character encoding, on a Universal Disk Format UDF digital ly formatted disk. In electronic media , the primary format is the encoding ... format is a system for dividing physical storage space or virtual space for data. Data space can ... format. A template may be considered an abstract format for containing a solution as well as the content ... grid Film formats Audio format Audio data format Video tape Video tape format Disk format File format Meta data Formatted text Text formatting Template file format Template Data structure Raw content formats Main content format A raw content format is a system of converting data to displayable information ... container format e.g. digital audio , digital video or recorded in the primary format. A primary raw content format may be directly information processing observable e.g. image , sound , Motion ... format Homevid DEFAULTSORT Recording Format Category Communication Category Information science Category ... more details
Dual Format is a technique used to allow two completely different systems software to reside on the same disk. The term was used on the Amiga and Atari ST platform to indicate that the disk could be inserted into either machine and it would still booting boot and run. The secret behind this lies in a very ... at the same time by fooling the operating system to think that the track resolved into the format ... Design Stone Age, Monster Business and Lethal Xcess . ST Amiga Format magazine also used the technique for their coverdisks. Amiga and IBM PC compatible PC dual format games also existed, like the budget version of Rick Dangerous . The game 3D Pool even contained a Tri format disk, which contained the Amiga, Atari ST and PC versions of the game. Most dual and tri format disks were implemented using technology developed by Rob Northen Computing. Recently, dual format has come to identify software ... Macintosh versions of its installation program. A list of a few of the Dual Format floppy disk titles ... July 26, 2011. ref Action Fighter Amiga PC dual format disk Lethal Xcess Wings of Death II Amiga Atart ST dual format disks Monster Business Amiga Atari ST dual format disk Populous The Promised Lands Amiga Atari ST dual format disk Rick Dangerous Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk Rick Dangerous 2 Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk Stone Age Amiga Atari ST dual format disk Street Fighter Amiga PC dual format disk StarGlider 2 Amiga Atari ST dual format disk 3D Pool Amiga Atari ST PC tri format disk Stunt Car Racer Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk Bionic Commando Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk Carrier Command Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk Blasteroids Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk E Motion Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Action Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk Out Run Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk World Class Leader Board Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk International Soccer Challenge Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk MicroProse Soccer Kixx Amiga PC dual format disk ... more details
orphan date August 2010 In computer science , format rot refers to the loss of data not due to losing information, but due to losing the means to interpret it by either an unavailability of software to parse the format, unavailability of the operating system to run said software, or unavailability of hardware to run said operating system. Contrast open format to proprietary format . Category Computer file formats computerscience stub ... more details
Context date October 2009 The PP format Post Processing Format is a Met Office proprietary file format for meteorological data. Simulations of the weather are performed by the Met Office s Unified Model , which can be used for Numerical Weather Prediction or Climatology , and data is collected. This data is usually meteorological in nature and may include averaged data for parameters like global surface temperatures or accumulations of rainfall for locations inside the model, though the Unified Model is capable of outputting many sophisticated diagnostics to PP format. These files are Binary file binary streams, structured in a proprietary file format which can then be processed and transformed into other, more portable, formats. The main reason for using such a format is to increase the rate at which data can be written from the model to disk, a major consideration when running a simulation that must be timely and efficient. External links http badc.nerc.ac.uk help formats pp format index.html Information about the PP format The Met Office Climate stub Category Earth sciences data formats ... more details
Rhenish is a newspaper format associated with the Rhineland . Rhenisch format pages measure around 350 360 mm by 510 530mm in either a horizontal or vertical orientation . A version of Rhenish around half the size is known as half Rhenish or semi Rhenish . newspaper stub Category Newspaper formats ... more details
An art format is constituted on the basis of a formula the format contains a number of invariable elements that create the framework for the participants and factors that change every time the art format is mounted. Besides the variables within the structure of the art format, the relation between the art format, space and time also changes e.g. An art format put up in a museum would differ slightly from an art format activated in a gallery. Other outward factors that could change the art format could be for instance of political matter an art format mounted in a totalitarian state would differ from a mounting of the same art format in a democratic state. Art institutions wanting to use an art format must purchase a license and agree to use the original formula i.e. title, the spirit and the methods that the artist has prescribed. File Criticalrunstockholm.jpg thumb Format Critical Run, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2009 An art format is an art work in itself. Format art is related to conceptual ... movement. As soon as an art format has proven successful it can with permission from and negotiation ... the art format incorporates psychological and sociological aspects by virtue of the relations arising between the participants. Thus an art format becomes a frame of interaction, form and expression, both visually and socially. File Emergencynyc.jpg thumb Format Emergency Room, MoMA PS1, New York 2007 Format Art s origin The concept art format is developed by the French Danish conceptual artist ... format as an artistic frame. Through his experience with TV productions for Danmarks Radio Danish National Television , Geoffroy was inspired to apply the format s power of creating to the art scene and thus create an art form that resembles the TV format designed for propagation, distribution and global ... Art Det 77.htm Definition of format art, Cairo Biennale 2008 by Thierry Geoffroy ... art Emergency Room format and the Critical Run format ref http www.wired.com beyond the beyond 2009 ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2009 Infobox Magazine title ST Format image file stf1.jpg image size 200px ST Format issue 1, August 1989 editor Nick Peers frequency Monthly circulation category Category Atari ST magazines Atari ST , Category Video game magazines Video games company Future Publishing firstdate August 1989 finaldate September 1996 finalnumber 86 country United Kingdom language English language English website issn ST Format was a computer magazine in the United Kingdom UK covering the Atari ST during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Like other members of the Future Publishing Format stable PC Format and Amiga Format , for instance, it combined software and hardware reviews with columnists, letters pages and a cover disk . The magazine was launched in 1989 http www.atari.st listmagazines.php?magid 1 when its predecessor, the short lived ST Amiga Format was split into two separate publications. Most of the staff went on to work at ST Format with Amiga Format essentially being a whole new magazine. Latterly, the magazine was kept alive by enthusiastic freelancers such as Frank Charlton and Andy Curtis, as well as dedicated staff writers and editors such as Clive Parker and Nick Peers. ST Format continued publication until 1996, when production of the Atari ST and Falcon computers was all but over. The final issue was published in September 1996, and was the eighty sixth issue of the magazine. Fan sites for the magazine still exist on the internet, some featuring archives of features from the magazines. External links http www.stformat.com The ST Format Shrine http www.atari.st listmagazines.php?magid 1 ST Format Cover Images http www.stcarchiv.de stf.php ST Format Digital Archive Future Publishing magazines Category Atari ST magazines Category Defunct British computer magazines Category Video game magazines Category Monthly magazines Category Magazines established ... mag stub UK sci mag stub fr ST Format sv ST Format ... more details
Multiple issues orphan February 2009 expert Data date February 2009 The SWX Format or simply SWX is an open source data format that Adobe Flash Adobe Flash Player Player can interpret, as if it were a standard SWF . ref http swxformat.org SWX SWF Data Format , official website ref Since SWX is a subset of the SWF format, data is stored as SWF bytecode which is automatically interpreted by any version of Adobe Flash Player requiring no additional installation by the end user. ref http code.google.com p swx format swx format Data Format , Google Code ref An ActionScript API is also provided by the developers aiding integration of the SWX Format into Flash Websites and Rich Internet Applications . Usage SWX data files can be loaded into Flash movies that use ActionScript 2 , using the internal Flash function loadMovie . This function is available in every active version of Adobe Flash Player, meaning developers may utilize this functionality without any additional source code. ActionScript 3 , using an SWX API function. When data is received, SWX sends a custom event to the Flash movie that requested the data, enabling the program to react or utilize the data the moment it is downloaded and available for use. References Reflist External links http swxformat.org SWX SWF Data Format , official website http code.google.com p swx format swx format Data Format , Google Code http code.google.com p swx format wiki Using SWX How to use SWX ActionScript API , wiki, Google Code http code.google.com p swx format wiki Installing SWX How to get SWX up and running , wiki, Google Code http groups.google.com group swx format SWX Support Group , Google Groups http swxjava.org SWX Java , official website http code.google.com p swxjava swxjava SWX RPC implementation in Java , Google Code Category Adobe Flash Category Computer file formats Category Data management database software stub ... more details
Infobox file format icon logo screenshot extension .sol mime type code uniform type magic owner Robert Fourer br David Gay br Brian Kernighan br Bell Labs genre mathematical programming container for contained by extended from extended to standard free lowercase nl sol is a file format for representing solutions of mathematical programming problems. ref cite techreport author David Gay title Writing .nl Files institution Sandia National Laboratories year 2005 address Albuquerque, NM url http citeseerx.ist.psu.edu viewdoc download?doi 10.1.1.60.9659&rep rep1&type pdf format Portable Document Format PDF ref It is often used in conjunction with the nl format nl format to return solutions from the solvers. Initially this format has been invented for connecting solvers to AMPL ref cite techreport author David Gay title Hooking Your Solver to AMPL institution Bell Laboratories year 1993 number 97 4 06 address Murray Hill, NJ url http www.ampl.com REFS hooking2.pdf format Portable Document Format PDF ref but then it has been adopted by other systems such as FortSP for interacting with external solvers. The sol format is low level and is designed for compactness not for readability. It has both binary and textual representation. Many solvers such as CPLEX , Gurobi and MOSEK can produce files in this format either directly or through special driver programs. The AMPL Solver Library ASL which allows among other things to read and write the sol files is open source. It is used in many solvers to implement AMPL connection. References Reflist See also nl format a file format for presenting mathematical programming problems DEFAULTSORT Sol Format Category Mathematical optimization Category Operations research Category Mathematical optimization software Category Computer file formats ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A bitstream format is the format of the data found in some Stream computing stream of bits used in a digital communication or Data storage device data storage application. The term typically refers to the format of the output of an encoder or the format of the input to a decoder when using data compression . Standardized interoperability specifications such as the video coding standards produced by the MPEG and the ITU T and the audio coding standards produced by the MPEG often specify only the bitstream format and the decoding process, while allowing individual encoder implementations to be designed using any methods whatsoever that produce bitstreams that conform to the specified bitstream format. clarifyme What else could the standards specify? date January 2012 Decoding of a bitstream can be initiated without having to start from the beginning of a file or the beginning of the data transmission. Bitstreams are designed for this to occur. fact Probably should go in the bitstream article anyway date January 2012 See also Elementary stream DEFAULTSORT Bitstream Format Category Data compression ... more details
infobox magazine title Linux Format editor Graham Morrison journalist Graham Morrison frequency 13 per year category Linux company Future Publishing firstdate 2000 country United Kingdom website http www.linuxformat.com language English language English issn 1470 4234 Linux Format was the UK s first Linux specific magazine, and is currently the best selling Linux title in the UK. It is also exported to many countries worldwide. It is published by Future Publishing which produces PC Plus , .net magazine .net and many other computer magazines . Linux Format is commonly abbreviated to LXF, and issues are referred to with LXF as a prefix followed by the issue number for example LXF102 refers to the 102nd issue . Articles within Linux Format are well established, regularly featuring at length series and involved, practical tutorials to teach and allow users to expand their skills in using the Linux operating system and its associated software applications. Contributions are encouraged to be submitted by readers. Linux Format shares the UK market place with an English language version of Linux Magazine as well as Linux User and Developer . Contents Linux Format includes similar content to that found in most computer magazines, but aimed specifically at users of the Linux operating system ... Linux Format has translated editions available in Italy, Greece and Russia ref http www.linuxformat.com ..., search for Linux Format http www.abc.org.uk ref Publisher Linux Format is published by Future Publishing Limited. Online presence Linux Format has a dedicated magazine website ref http www.linuxformat.com ... Format editorial staff launched TuxRadar ref http www.tuxradar.com ref . TuxRadar has become the primary method of the editorial team getting Linux news on to the Internet, with the Linux Format webpage ... Format Future Publishing magazines Linux Category British computer magazines Category Linux magazines ... Linux Format ja Linux Format pt Linux Format ru Linux Format fi Linux Format ... more details
The Excellon format ref http www.excellon.com manuals program.htm original ref is a format used to drive CNC drilling and routing machines in electronics manufacturing of printed circuit board s PCBs . It is a variant of the EIA RS 274 C standard. It is an ASCII format consisting of commands to drill holes of specific diameters at specific locations on a PCB. A sample file br M48 METRIC,TZ FMAT,2 ICI,OFF T02C0.8000 T01C0.9000 T03C1.9500 T04C3.2000 M71 G90 G93X0Y0 T02 X125730Y16193 Y16828 Y17463 ... M30 The name Excellon format is derived from the Excellon Automation Company, which was market leader in PCB drilling and routing machines during the 1980s, and whose NC format became widely used. The IPC organization defined a standard for NC files, the IPC NC 349 format, ref IPC NC 349 Computer Numerical Control Formatting for Drillers and Routers, published in 1985 ref which is similar to the Excellon format. Usage The Excellon format is used to exchange drill and rout data between CAD CAM systems as well as to drive CNC machines. The Excellon format was designed for and is suited for driving a NC drilling machine. There as some issues about specifying the coordinate format though. It is not ideal for exchanging data between CAD CAM systems essential information such as plating and drill span is missing. For data exchange between CAD CAM systems it is more practical to describe the drill data in Gerber format Gerber RS 274X format . ref The RS 274X Format, published by Ucamco in December 2010, downloadable at http www.ucamco.com ref This is also a simple format, and quality of the RS ... The name Excellon format or Excellon file is also commonly used for files that only vaguely follow ... are meaningless without additional information, typically put in a free format human readable tool ... manual labor and possibility of delays or errors. These so called Excellon files give the format ... manuals program.htm Official Excellon format description archived from the http www.excellon.com ... more details
Infobox file format icon logo screenshot extension .nl mime type code uniform type magic owner Robert Fourer br David Gay br Brian Kernighan br Bell Labs genre mathematical programming container for contained by extended from extended to standard free lowercase nl nl is a file format for presenting and archiving mathematical programming problems. ref cite techreport author David Gay title Writing .nl Files institution Sandia National Laboratories year 2005 address Albuquerque, NM url http citeseerx.ist.psu.edu viewdoc download?doi 10.1.1.60.9659&rep rep1&type pdf format Portable Document Format PDF ref It supports Linear programming linear and Nonlinear programming nonlinear optimization problems as well as Complementarity theory complementarity problems MPECs , in discrete or continuous variables. Initially this format has been invented for connecting solvers to AMPL ref cite techreport author David Gay title Hooking Your Solver to AMPL institution Bell Laboratories year 1993 number 97 4 06 address Murray Hill, NJ url http www.ampl.com REFS hooking2.pdf format Portable Document Format PDF ref but then it has been adopted by other systems such as COIN OR as one of the input formats and FortSP for interacting with external solvers. The nl format is low level and is designed for compactness, not for readability. It has both binary and textual representation. Many solvers such as CPLEX , Gurobi and MOSEK accept this format either directly or through special driver programs. The AMPL Solver Library ASL which allows to read the nl files and provides the automatic differentiation functionality is open source. It is used in many solvers to implement AMPL connection. References Reflist See also sol format a file format for presenting solutions of mathematical programming problems Category Mathematical optimization Category Operations research Category Mathematical optimization software Category Computer file formats uk nl ... more details
An archive format is the file format of an archive file . The archive format is determined by the file archiver . Some archive formats are well defined by their authors and have become conventions supported by multiple vendors and or open source communities. Archive formats support features such as file concatenation, data compression , encryption , file spanning , parity bit parity Cyclic redundancy check , checksum , self extraction, self installation, volume and directory structure information, package notes description, and other meta data . Types of Archive Formats Archiving only formats only ... By Operating System Unix operating system s utilize the tar file format , ar Unix ar , and shar file format shar to concatenate files. These archive formats can then be compressed into gzip format. On Microsoft Windows Windows platforms, the most widely used archive format is ZIP file format ZIP other formats are Cabinet file format CAB , RAR file format , and ACE file format ACE . Windows Installer is a high level archive format for distribution of software. On Amiga computers the standard archive format is LHA file format LHA . on Apple Macintosh computers ZIP is now natively used in recent Mac OS X 10.3 , though StuffIt used to be the most common. Linux often uses Tar file format TAR , Gzip ... Origins Ubiquitous amongst Unix and Unix like operating system s is the tar file format t ape ar chive ..., every operating system, and every vendor had its own preferred archive format. Some formats ... format digital , a similar concept in media files References http www.pkware.com documents casestudies APPNOTE.TXT Application Note on the .ZIP file format official white paper published by PKWARE, Inc. http datacompression.info ArchiveFormats tar.txt Tape Archive .TAR file format specification excerpt from File Format List 2.0 by Max Maischein http www 03.ibm.com ibm history exhibits 701 701 ... dmoz Computers Data Formats Archive Archive formats Archive formats DEFAULTSORT Archive Format Category ... more details
Prestige format is a term coined by DC Comics and later came into wider use to refer to a perfect bound square bound comic book with cardstock covers. A prestige format comic book is usually longer than a normal, stapled 32 page comic sometimes referred to as a pamphlet . Prestige comics typically also have higher quality paper and printing than pamphlet comics. The first comic to be referred to as prestige format was Frank Miller comics Frank Miller s Batman The Dark Knight Returns , published by DC Comics in 1986. The term has been used regularly by DC since that time, and has seen use by other comic publishers as well, but is not used universally. Sometimes squarebound comics are simply said to be in a squarebound format. comics stub Category Comics terminology Category Comics formats es Formato prestigio ... more details
An open file format is a published specification for storing Data computing digital data , usually maintained ..., an open format can be implementable by both proprietary software proprietary and free software ... formats, closed format s are considered trade secrets. Open formats are also called free file formats ... purpose. ref name Free File Format Definition cite web url http www.linfo.org free file format.html title Free File Format Definition publisher LINFO.org accessdate 2007 02 11 ref Specific definitions ... presentations sun odf.pdf Open Document Format for Office Applications OpenDocument v1.0 OASIS Standard, 1 May 2005 ref The format is based on an underlying open standard The format is developed through a publicly visible, community driven process The format is affirmed and maintained by a vendor independent standards organization The format is fully documented and publicly available The format ... Open Government Directive , according to which An open format is one that is platform independent ... article.php?story 20070206155518882 Meanwhile, Deep Down in Texas An Open Format Bill is Filed Tuesday, February 06 2007 03 55 PM PST Contributed by Andy Updegrove ConsortiumInfo.org ref The format is interoperable among diverse internal and external platforms and applications The format is fully published and available royalty free The format is implemented by multiple vendors The format ... OASIS Open Document Format For Office Applications OpenDocument v. 1.1 Office Open XML Ecma 376 Office Open XML Formats Open XML HTML Hypertext Document Format v. 4.01 plain text Plain Text Format The Linux Information Project According to The Linux Information Project , the term open format should refer to any format that is published for anyone to read and study but which may or may not be encumbered by patents, copyrights or other restrictions on use . ref name Free File Format Definition as opposed to a free format which is not encumbered by any copyrights, patents, trademarks or other ... more details
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