Total GIS Converter is a converter app that allows you to convert large GIS file projects to smaller image file sizes in various formats without sacrificing the quality.It is developed and regulated by Esri as a (mostly) open specification for data interoperability among Esri and other GIS software products. The Shapefile format is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features.
In the index file, each record contains the offset of the corresponding main file record from the beginning of the main file. The main file is a direct access, variable-record-length file in which each record describes a shape with a list of its vertices.