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What is the layout of a DIF file, and, more importantly, what is the meaning of the different header and data fields in one? The Wikipedia article has enough information that I suspect this would be an easy-to-generate format that's richer than CSV. But I can't find a good enough description of this format to actually generate it.

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When I have such issue, I usually go at Wotsit, here at the Spreadsheet / Database Files section, and see if they have anything.

They have a Dif.zip file with a DIF.txt file inside which is a short (164 lines) description of the format.
I cannot guarantee the description is official/complete, but it might be a good start.

PhiLho