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OCR: OPERATING SYSTEMS AND FILE MANAGEMENT 207 FILE FORMATS INFOWEBLINKS What is file format? The term file format refers to the organization The File Formats InfoWeb pro- and layout of data that is stored in a file As you might expect, music files vides list of file extensions and are stored differently than text files or graphics files; but even within single their corresponding software category of data there are many file formats. For example graphics data CLICK TO CONNECT can be stored in file formats such as bitmap GIF, JPEG or PNG concepts2010/ch04 The format of a file usually includes header, data, and possibly an end-of- file marker. file header IS section of data at the beginning that contains information about a file -typically the date it was created, the date it was last updated it ...