A text file (sometimes spelled textfile; an old alternative name is flat file) is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of...

binary file is a computer file that is not a text file. The term "binary file" is often used as a term meaning "non-text file". Many binary file formats...

In computing, a line is a unit of organization for text files. A line consists of a sequence of zero or more characters, usually displayed within a single...

in any branch of study Plain text, unformatted text Text file, a type of computer file opened by most text software Text string, a sequence of characters...

period is the file's extension. Some file formats, such as .txt or .text, may be listed multiple times. ?Q? – files that are compressed, often by the SQ...

intended to be read as text. If such a file is accidentally viewed as a text file, its contents will be unintelligible. However, some file signatures can be...

employed. Plain text is stored in text files, although text files do not exclusively store plain text. Since the early days of computers, plain text was (once...

combination of audio and video, with or without text (such as subtitles), and metadata. A text file can contain any stream of characters, including possible...

A Domain Name System (DNS) zone file is a text file that describes a DNS zone. A DNS zone is a subset, often a single domain, of the hierarchical domain...

In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation...

The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses. It is a plain text file. Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was...

An INI file is a configuration file for computer software that consists of plain text with a structure and syntax comprising key–value pairs organized...

be executed by the command-line interpreter, stored in a plain text file. A batch file may contain any command the interpreter accepts interactively and...

to their wide support, DSV files can be used in data exchange among many applications. A delimited text file is a text file used to store data, in which...

create and modify files by hand using a text editor, which is possible because many are human-editable plain text files. For server processes and operating-system...

(CSV) is a text file format that uses commas to separate values, and newlines to separate records. A CSV file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain...

The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated RTF) is a proprietary document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation from...

formats to a text file. It is released under the GNU GPL. Its subtitle format's file extension is .srt and is widely supported. Each .srt file is a human-readable...

called an "e-text". An e-text may be a binary or a plain text file, viewed with any open source or proprietary software. An e-text may have markup or other...

end of text files). The general definition of a file does not require that its size have any real meaning, however, unless the data within the file happens...

shell, but rather instructs the machine to download a certain executable file off the network, save it to disk and execute it. Nowadays, it is commonly...

relationships between records. The file is simple. A flat file can be a plain text file (e.g. csv, txt or tsv), or a binary file. Relationships can be inferred...

FILE_ID.DIZ is a plain-text file containing a brief description of the content of the archive to which it belongs. Such files were originally used in...

cue file, is a metadata file which describes how the tracks of a CD or DVD[citation needed] are laid out. Cue sheets are stored as plain text files and...

(PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent...

An include directive instructs a text file processor to replace the directive text with the content of a specified file. The act of including may be logical...

generate a processed report of the content of, or filter a file or report of a text file. The text processing of a regular expression is a virtual editing...

(depending on the file system) include: name – base name of the file extension – may indicate the format of the file (e.g. .txt for plain text, .pdf for Portable...

programs work with data files. Data files can be stored in two ways: Text files; Binary files. A text file (also called ASCII files) stores information in...

treat a Control-Z in a text file as marking the end of meaningful data, and/or append a Control-Z to the end when writing a text file. This was done for two...