An open file format is a file format for storing digital data, defined by an openly published specification usually maintained by a standards organization...
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An open file in chess is a file with no pawns of either color on it. In the diagram, the e-file is an open file. An open file can provide a line of attack...
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An open file format is a file format for storing digital data, defined by a published specification usually maintained by a standards organization, and...
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In chess, a half-open file (or semi-open file) is a file with pawns of only one color. The half-open file can provide a line of attack for a player's rook...
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per-process file descriptor table maintained by the kernel, that in turn indexes into a system-wide table of files opened by all processes, called the file table...
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geometry definition file format first developed by Wavefront Technologies for The Advanced Visualizer animation package. It is an open file format and has...
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The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, standardized as ISO 26300, is an open file format for word processing...
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File locking is a mechanism that restricts access to a computer file, or to a region of a file, by allowing only one user or process to modify or delete...
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This is a list of file synchronization software for which there are Wikipedia articles. This is a comparison of the freeware (proprietary software release...
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Certain files can store multiple data types at once. By using computer programs, a person can open, read, change, save, and close a computer file. Computer...
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The ZIM file format is an open file format that stores website content for offline usage. The format is defined by the openZIM project, which also supports...
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In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access. A local file system is a capability of...
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The Office Open XML file formats are a set of file formats that can be used to represent electronic office documents. There are formats for word processing...
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computer to access files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed. NFS, like many other protocols, builds on the Open Network Computing...
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In computing, a file dialog (also called file selector/chooser, file requester, or open and save dialog) is a dialog box-type graphical control element...
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Glossary of chess (redirect from File (chess))
half-open file as if it were an open file, or a closed file as if it were half-open. rook pawn Or rook's pawn. A pawn on the rook's file, i.e. the a-file or...
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hardware that the company itself has developed. In contrast, an open or free format is a file format that is published and free to be used by everybody. Some...
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storage medium. File formats may be either proprietary or open. Some file formats are designed for very particular types of data: PNG files, for example...
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interpretations, and their repercussions. Under Unix, a directory can be opened like a regular file, containing fixed-size records of (i-node, filename), but directories...
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to open file \"myfile\""); return EXIT_FAILURE; } if (fread(buffer, 1, 5, fp) < 5) { fclose(fp); fputs("An error occurred while reading the file.\n"...
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File Table (JFT) is a DOS data structure in the Program Segment Prefix (PSP). It starts at PSP offset 0x18 and is 20 bytes long. For each open file handle...
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viewer is responsible for user access of files located on a data storage device. File viewers allow the user to open and view content on a device, such as...
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incompatible document file formats. Examples of XML-based open standards are DocBook, XHTML, and, more recently, the ISO/IEC standards OpenDocument (ISO 26300:2006)...
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in a setuid program, has a TOCTOU bug: if (access("file", W_OK) != 0) { exit(1); } fd = open("file", O_WRONLY); write(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)); Here...
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Files-11 is the file system used in the RSX-11 and OpenVMS operating systems from Digital Equipment Corporation. It supports record-oriented I/O, remote...
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A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders. The most common operations performed...
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Matroska (redirect from Matroska file)
one file. The Matroska Multimedia Container is similar in concept to other containers like AVI, MP4, or Advanced Systems Format (ASF), but is an open standard...
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A file signature is data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or magic bytes and are usually...
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FileZilla is a free and open-source, cross-platform FTP application, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Clients are available for Windows...
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a list of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format's name...
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