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QIFF is a specification for an ASCII Interface File together with software to turn such files into Common Data Formatted (CDF) fiels which are compliant with ISTP and Cluster CSDS specifications. It is written by QMW as part of our role in the Cluster Science Centre within the UK. The format and software, while written with Cluster in mind, are quite general in applicability, and are used by several groups for a variety of purposes. The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council funds this project for the express support of the UK Cluster community, and authorized supply is therefore limited. The software includes a copyright notice and disclaimer. Users are free to modify their own private copies of the software, but should keep the original QM Copyright notice/disclaimer as part of any modified copy. QIFF software is written in C.
A complete set of QIFF materials is available in tar'ed, compressed form as QIFF-Release. Components are also available individually below.
The Interchange File Format is a simple ASCII table format with pre-pended ASCII material providing the metadata and other information needed for CDF Attributes. The format is specified in
The manual describing the use of the QIFF software for generating CDF files from IFF files is found in
QIFF is written by Tony Allen, with the support of the UK CDHF Team at QMW. The team members, in alphabetical order, are Tony Allen (A.J.Allen@qmul.ac.uk), Stuart Bale, David Burgess (D.Burgess@qmul.ac.uk), Gareth Chisham, Markus Fraenz, Anthony Hare, and Steve Schwartz (S.J.Schwartz@qmul.ac.uk). Please address all comments to csc_support@qmul.ac.uk.