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Why do people call an executable file (.exe) a binary file?

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ogden:

--- Quote from: tooki on April 28, 2020, 08:12:36 am ---We meant “human readable” in that you can read the characters, even if they aren’t immediately understandable.

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Yes, I got it that saying so people did mean plain text files. I just wanted to point out problem with term "human readable" because there are machine-readable text files, like (surprise surprise) HEX files.


--- Quote ---Hex, FWIW, is simply a convenient way to display binary data, instead of displaying long strings of 1s and 0s. They’re definitely not text files.

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Please do not confuse display with file ;)  HEX files, other name Intel HEX files are definitely text files:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HEX


--- Quote ---Well, it’s all you need to know unless you’re a cocky teenager who thinks he’s outsmarted the entirety of the computer industry!  ;D

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:) It is fine to be young and "think different". Hopefully OP will take file format lesson for good and proceed further.

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