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Re: binary files ,kudos,RE:new to this

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jan 30, 2003
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:05:36 -0300, rforno at tutopia.com wrote:

>A byte has 8 bits and so 256 different characters can be coded into it. =
When
>these characters are in the range of the letters, numbers and special
>characters, plus 'carriage return', 'tab' and 'new line', the file is =
said
>to be of type 'text'. If other characters are allowed, the file is said =
to
>be 'binary'.

Quite true. Also, however the term binary is often used specifically
to mean executable files (as opposed to source code). Particularly if
you see the phrase "Windows binary" it invariably refers to a program
file, not say word (.doc), excel (.xls), bitmap (.bmp) etc files which
are binary files that occur on windows. No biggie, just pointing out a
popular (mis)use of the term I felt you (jdube) should be aware of.

Pete