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application
A software program
designed to assist in the performance of a specific task, such
as word processing, accounting or inventory management
API
Acronym for Application Programming Interface.
ASCII
ASCII was developed in 1968 to standardize data
transmission among disparate hardware and software systems and
is built into most minicomputers and personal computers. ASCII
is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information
Interchange. It is a coding scheme using 7 or 8 bits that
assigns numeric values to up to 256 characters, including
letters, numerals, punctuation marks, control characters and
other symbols.
ASCII
file
A document file in ASCII format,
containing characters, spaces, punctuation, carriage returns,
tabs and an end-of-file marker, but no formatting information.
Can also be called a text file or text-only file.
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