May 15, 2003

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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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:27 AM

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