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A file that only contains text characters from the ASCII character set. An ASCII file contains letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols, but does not contain any hidden text-formatting commands. Also known as a text file, and aSCII text file.
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange file containing only text; for example, schema definition files and scripts.
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A file consisting of alphanumeric characters only. Although on-linely every file can be converted to an ASCII file, all formatting (for example, bold, italics, underline, font size, and so on) will be lost in the ASCII file.
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a file that contains no special formatting, generally used as a data file.
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ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), generally pronounced (in IPA), is a character set and a character encoding based on the Roman alphabet as used in modern English and other Western European languages (see English alphabet). It is most commonly used by computers and other communication equipment to represent text and by control devices that work with text.
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