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The Jargon File

Parts of this article are based on the Jargon File, v. 4.4.7,
a public domain document of hacker jargon.

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Usage: n.
Derivation: Techspeak

See Also: English, flat-ASCII


text: n.

  1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a pure code portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking OS. Compare English.
  2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary ASCII or EBCDIC representation (see flat-ASCII). "Those are text files; you can review them using the editor."

These two contradictory senses confuse hackers, too.

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Source: text, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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