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...

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...

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...

beginning of the file. Many file formats are not intended to be read as text. If such a file is accidentally viewed as a text file, its contents will...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

configuration files – sometimes via graphical user interface (GUI). For context, system administrators may be expected to create and modify text config files via...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In computing, formatted text, styled text, or rich text, as opposed to plain text, is digital text which has styling information beyond the minimum of...

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...

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...

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...

(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 INF file (setup Information file) is an INI plain-text file used by Microsoft Windows-based operating systems for the installation of software and...

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...

the conversion of a text file from one character encoding system to another; or more complex, such as the conversion of office file formats, or the conversion...

A web browser functions as a file viewer for HTML and various other file types. While HTML files are stored as plain text, web browsers render them into...