.dfm

1 claimant 0 primary 1 secondary secondary-only

SWH popularity

Distinct files in the full Software Heritage archive (2026-06-04 export), dated by first appearance, following Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz (MSR 2025). Case-aggregated. citation.

1.2M
total files
253.8K
first seen 2021–2025 (21.8%)
2017
median year (half its files since)

Case variants in archive: .dfm (1.2M), .DFM (6.7K), .Dfm (122), .dFM (1), .dFm (1) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Pascal — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.

Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary ✗ Pygments · no claim ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (1)

Languages that list .dfm among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
Pascallinguistsecondary

Wikidata says… (6)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .dfm on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
C++ Builder Form file format family Q123693510
file format family
file format family———Use as new PL ↗
Borland Delphi - C++ Builder Form (var.1) Q105856239
file format
file format—text/plain—Use as new PL ↗
Borland Delphi - C++ Builder Form (var.2) Q105855910
file format
file format—text/plain—Use as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (1)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive, grouped by predicted language and by how the prediction was made. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
Pascal (1) — 1 via fallback
frReservedCapsSettings.dfm · 1787 B · seen 54× in SWH
predicted: Pascal via fallback
swh:1:cnt:ef116707e31026d7f5c95a415b55a7cb1829cb67;origin=https://github.com/stokito/jedicodeformat;anchor=swh:1:rev:9c1c3f6c705d89b57e6d9286eabbdca1c956a221;path=/CodeFormat/Jcf2/Ui/Settings/frReservedCapsSettings.dfm
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