COMCIFS has unanimously endorsed the draft powder diffraction CIF
dictionary,
version 0.996, as posted on 12 March 1997, subject to editorial
corrections.
This may be taken as the formal adoption by the IUCr of pdCIF as the
preferred archive file format for powder diffraction data and structural
reports. An official release version (to be assigned the revision number
1.0) will be made available to the community upon completion of
editorial
and proofing stages; status reports on this process wil be posted at the
IUCr CIF home page http://www.iucr.ac.uk/iucr-top/cif/home.html.
Software
developers may consult the draft version 0.996
(ftp://ftp.iucr.ac.uk/pub/cifdic.p96) as a good indicator of the overall
structure and content of the final version, but should be aware of the
possibility of some change between this and the official published
version.
Brian McMahon
Coordinating Secretary, COMCIFS (bm@iucr.ac.uk)
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