In ASCII, each character (letter, number, symbol or control character) is represented by a binary value. Extended ASCII is a version that supports representation of 256 different characters.

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the ...

See binary file and BFT. When an ASCII text file is transferred to another computer, the end-of-line (line break) characters may be converted to a different format if the operating system in the ...