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 | | A method of encoding characters including alphabetic characters (A-Z, uppercase and lowercase), numbers 0-9, punctuation and other marks (e.g., comma, period, space, and, *), and various "control characters" (e.g., tab, carriage return, linefeed) using binary numbers. |
 | | There are standards, commonly called "character sets," that establish that a particular byte stands for an "A" and a different byte stands for a "7". |
 | | A segment of data that has a specified and constant size in bytes or that is clearly delimited from other records by a newline character or sector of a disk or other means identifiable to a computer program reading the file. |
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