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.

