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Summary
Name	Revisable-Form-Text Document Content Architecture
Version
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: x-fmt/11
Family
Classification	Word Processor
Disclosure
Description	The Document Content Architecture, (DCA for short) is a standard developed by IBM for text documents in the early 1980s. DCA was used on mainframe and iSeries systems, and formed the basis of DisplayWrite's file format. DCA was later extended as MO:DCA (Mixed Object Document Content Architecture), which added embedded data files, like graphics.
Orientation	Text
Byte order
Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date	02 Aug 2005
Source description
Last updated	03 Aug 2015
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