This part of ISO/IEC 9592 specifies a file format suitable for the storage and retrieval of PHIGS structure definitions. The file format consists of an ordered set of elements that can be used to describe structures in a way that is compatible between systems of different architectures and implementations supporting different programming languages.
The archive file is defined in such a way that, in addition to sequential access to the whole archive file, random access to individual structure definitions is well-defined; whether this is available in any system that uses this part of ISO/IEC 9592 depends on the medium, the encoding and the implementation.
Clause 4 describes the organization of an archive file.
ISO/IEC 9592-3 specifies a clear-text encoding of the archive file format.
| SDO | ISO: International Organization for Standardization |
| Document Number | ISO/IEC 9592 |
| Publication Date | Not Available |
| Language | en - English |
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| Committee | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 |