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A file that contains more than plain text (ie, photos, sounds, spreadsheet, etc.) In contrast to an ASCII file which only contains plain text.
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A file containing information that is in machine-readable form; it can be read only by an >application. "Binary_file" usually refers to a file that uses all 8 bits of each byte for >information. Text files usually use only 7 bits, leaving the 8th bit as 0.
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A file that uses all eight bits of the byte. Machine language programs (executable programs), graphics files, databases, spreadsheets and most word processing files fall into this category. Almost all files except for simple ASCII text files are binary files. The distinction is meaningful when transmitting mail over the Internet. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) supports ASCII characters, which use only seven bits. ...
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A file whose content doesn't consist of lines of text. Executable (.EXE), dynamic link library (.DLL), and most database files are stored in binary format.
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A file containing information such as a compressed archive, an image, a program, a spread sheet, or a word processor document. The items in the file usually cannot be displayed on a screen or printed without using some program.
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a file whose contents are machine binary words, usually specific to a single kind of machine.
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All computer files other than plain-text documents, images, sound clips, formatted word-processing files, are binary files which can be run when activated (executed) by a computer. They often have the file extension ".exe" at the end of their file names, and are called "executables".
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A file containing binary information; for example, areas and executable programs.
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A file that contains more than plain text (ie photos, sounds, a spreadsheet, or a formatted word-processing document). In contrast to ASCII files, which contain only characters (plain text), binary files contain additional code information. A binary file is made up of machine-readable symbols that represent 1s and 0s. Binary files include sound files, graphics files, and software, and are frequently called binaries.
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Technically, a file in which all eight bits of its component bytes are used for data. The binary file content must be interpreted by a program that understands in advance exactly how it is formatted.
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A term often found in Public Domain software listings, and simply refers to an executable program, otherwise known as "object code", as distinct from the "source code" used to create the executable program, that is often included with PD programs. It would probably less confusing if it simply said "source code not included".
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A file that contains unprintable characters, such as control characters. Binary files cannot be displayed or opened with text editors (unlike ASCII text files)
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(computer science) a computer file containing machine-readable information that must be read by an application; characters use all 8 bits of each byte
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Computer files can be divided into two broad categories: binary and text. Text files are files which contain ordinary textual characters with essentially no formatting; binary files are all other files.The distinction is not universal because any file is fundamentally a sequence of bits, and many computer components (for example, all hard disk circuitry and most system software) make no distinction between file types. ...
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