text file

file containing only ASCII characters and not special characters

A text file is a generic description of a kind of computer file in a computer file system. At this generic level of description, there are two kinds of computer files: 1) text files; and 2) binary files. This broad two-level distinction is widely recognized and applied in computing, even though it can be misleading, and subject to differing interpretation.
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Noun
1. (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using 7-bit ASCII characters
(synonym) document
(hypernym) computer file
(hyponym) web page
(classification) computer science, computing

<file format> A file containing no "invisible" control characters, only printable letters, numbers and symbols, usually from the ASCII character set.
A text file can be produced with a text editor and can usually be imported into any word processor though it will probably appear unformatted.
Compare binary file, flat file, rich text file.
(1996-11-15)

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