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About Files
File is a named location on the system storage which records data for later access. It is stored in a non-volatile memory
A unique path name of the file must be given to access the file for reading and modification purpose. Files are classified into text file and binary file
Text file
- Text files are structured as a sequence of lines, where each line includes a sequence of characters.
- Each line is terminated with a special character, called the EOL or End of line character
- They are identified with .txt file
Binary File
- Binary file is a file stored in binary format
- A binary file is machine – readable but not computer readable
- All executable programs are stored in binary files
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