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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>text</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TeX.html" title="TeX"/><link rel="next" href="thanks-in-advance.html" title="thanks in advance"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">text</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TeX.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thanks-in-advance.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="text"/><dt xmlns="" id="text"><b>text</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a <span class="firstterm">pure code</span> portion shared between multiple
instances of a program running in a multitasking OS. Compare
<a href="../E/English.html"><i class="glossterm">English</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary
<a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a> or <a href="../E/EBCDIC.html"><i class="glossterm">EBCDIC</i></a>
representation (see <a href="../F/flat-ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">flat-ASCII</i></a>). &#8220;<span class="quote">Those are
text files; you can review them using the editor.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p> These two contradictory senses confuse hackers, too.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TeX.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thanks-in-advance.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TeX </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> thanks in advance</td></tr></table></div></body></html>