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Binary file

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A binary file is a computer file that is not a text file.1 The term “binary file” is often used as a term meaning “non-text file”.2 Many binary file formats contain parts that can be interpreted as text; for example, some computer document files containing formatted text, such as older Microsoft Word document files, contain the text of the document but also contain formatting information in binary form.2

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Footnotes

  1. “Binary file definition by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)”. www.linfo.org. Retrieved 2017-10-12. ↩

  2. “Ascii vs. Binary Files”. www.cs.umd.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-12. ↩ ↩2