text: n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a `pure code'
portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a
multitasking OS. Compare English. 2. Textual material in the
mainstream sense; data in ordinary ASCII or EBCDIC
representation (see flat-ASCII). "Those are text files; you can
review them using the editor." These two contradictory senses
confuse hackers, too.
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