| Subject | English | French |
| comp., MS | format file | fichier de format (A file containing meta information (such as data type and column size) that is used to interpret data when being read from or written to a data file) |
| comp. | format file | fichier de formats |
| comp., MS | Management Information Format file | fichier MIF (A file that can be used to modify the SMS/Configuration Manager database by creating architectures, object classes, and attributes) |
| avia., Canada, IT | operational format file | fichier de format opérationnel |
| comp., MS | stream format file | fichier de format de flux (A file used by a player to decode a multicast stream) |
| IT | Symbolic Link Format file | format d'importation pour les fichiers textes |
| IT | System Data Format file | format de base de données texte dont les champs ont une longueur fixe |
| IT, dat.proc. | V-format file | fichier à champs variables |