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{{Short description|Container file format introduced by Electronic Arts and Commodore}}
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| owner = [[Electronic Arts]], [[Commodore International|Commodore]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1985}}
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'''Interchange File Format''' ('''IFF''') is a generic [[container format (digital)|digital container file format]] originally introduced by [[Electronic Arts]] (in cooperation with [[Commodore International|Commodore]]) in 1985 to facilitate transfer of data between software produced by different companies.

IFF files do not have any standard [[filename extension]]. On many systems that generate IFF files, file extensions are not important because the [[operating system]] stores [[file format]] [[metadata]] separately from the [[file name]]. The <code>.iff</code> filename extension is commonly used for the [[ILBM]] [[image file format]], which uses the IFF container format.

[[Resource Interchange File Format]] is a format developed by [[Microsoft]] and [[IBM]] in 1991 that is based on IFF, except the [[byte order]] has been changed to [[little-endian]] to match the [[x86]] [[microprocessor]] architecture. [[Apple Computer|Apple]]'s [[Audio Interchange File Format]] (AIFF) is a [[big-endian]] [[audio file format]] developed from IFF. The [[TIFF]] image file format is not related to IFF.