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Summary
Name	Binary Property List
Version
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/984
Family
Classification
Disclosure
Description	In the OS X, iOS, NeXTSTEP, and GNUstep programming frameworks, property list files store serialized objects. It is the standard way to save and load data between the internal representation within the objects defined in an Objective-C program and disk files, in order to store program settings and other data. This is the binary version but there is also an XML version of the format.
Orientation	Binary
Byte order
Related file formats	Has lower priority than Apple Safari Webarchive
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date	06 Feb 2017
Source description
Last updated	06 Feb 2017
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