What does ASCII text file mean?
Sense 1ASCII text file [BACK TO TOP] Meaning: A text file that contains only ASCII characters without special formatting Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents Hypernyms (“ASCII text file” is a kind of…): document; text file ((computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of “ASCII text file”): source code (program instructions written as an ASCII text file; must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution)