May 15, 2003

flat-ASCII

adj.

[common] Said of a text file that contains only 7-bit ASCII characters and uses only ASCII-standard control characters (that is, has no embedded codes specific to a particular text formatter markup language, or output device, and no meta-characters). Syn. plain-ASCII. Compare flat-file.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:47 AM

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