Re:Things Every Hacker Once Knew
by fuzztester on Saturday September 30, 2023 @04:47AM
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Sorry, loose wording or brain fart there.
I meant text files vs. binary files, as in, you can open text files in a text editor and see their contents, but if you open a binary file in a text editor, you get what appears to be garbage, but that is not an error, because of all the non-printable characters they often contain.
But at one level you are right, of course, files are just files. It is the higher layers of software and humans that give different interpretations to them, such as text vs binary.
I meant text files vs. binary files, as in, you can open text files in a text editor and see their contents, but if you open a binary file in a text editor, you get what appears to be garbage, but that is not an error, because of all the non-printable characters they often contain.
But at one level you are right, of course, files are just files. It is the higher layers of software and humans that give different interpretations to them, such as text vs binary.