However, if you are using some type of scripting language, binary file support might be a bit more difficult. One answer is to use a tool like xxd or t2b (text-to-binary) to handle the details.

spreadsheet and multimedia files are binary files. However, text and source program files as well as HTML and XML files are ASCII text files, just plain text, not binary. The binary vs.

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 ...