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logical device names (e.g. The names of the domains). Files that are specific to a logical
device shall be located within the directory that represents the logical device.
NOTE Not all files may be able to be associated with a particular LD. As an example, the image file of the server
itself may not be directly associated with an LD. Therefore, for files not associated with a LD, it is a local issue in
regards to the directory in which such files are stored.
The minimum-maximum name-of-a-file size shall be 12 octets. It is recommended that the file
specification be a maximum size of 64 octets. The maximum file specification size shall be
specified in the implementation’s PIXIT statement.
FileName suffixes should be used to differentiate the content format of files. The suffix should
be a maximum of 3 octets. The suffixes in Table 79 are reserved.
Table 79 – Reserved file suffixes
Suffix Contents
Bin Shall indicate binary format
Dtd eXtensible Markup Language Document Type Description file of format
dtd:XML
Gif Shall indicate graphics interchange format contents
Htm Shall indicate HTML contents
Pqd Power Quality Data Interchange Format – PQDIF
txt Shall indicate ASCII contents
Xml eXtensible Markup Language file of format table-xml:XML
Xsd eXtensible Markup Language Schema Definition file of format xsd:XML
Zip Shall indicate zip compressed file format
FileName case sensitivity shall be declared in the implementation’s PIXIT statement.
COMTRADE FILES
IEEE C37.111(1999) (COMTRADE) files shall be contained within a file directory whose name
is “COMTRADE”. The file specifications shall be consistent with the naming conventions and
suffixes specified in IEEE C37.111(1999).
The IEEE COMTRADE specification IEEE C37.111(1999) specifies the use of three different
suffixes (e.g. hdr, cfg, and dat). In normal information/computational usage these suffixes may
represent files other than COMTRADE.
If the directory contains a file with a suffix of “zip”, that file shall convey the compressed
contents of the COMTRADE hdr, cfg, and dat files of the files of the same name.
The COMTRADE directories shall be located in the appropriate directory path (e.g. within the
LD directory or at the root level).
FileSize
The IEC 61850-7-2 FileSize attribute shall be mapped to the MMS file size attribute. A value
of 0 may be used to indicate that the file has an unknown size or that the file contains 0
octets.
The size value shall be interpreted as an estimated file size and shall not be used to
determine absolute size.
NOTE Transfers from one file system to another may increase or decrease the actual size of the file.