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But .txt is not the same as .rs; yet .txt is not the same as .docx, although both of these files look the same to the human eye.

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[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

2 types. Text and binary files. Images, sounds, compiled programs, videos are all binary files. Some word processors save their work in binary files.

Text files can follow all sorts of syntaxes. Plaintext, HTML, JSON and so on.

[-] gnufuu@infosec.pub 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

To be pedantic, plaintext files are binary files too, they merely exclude non-printable bytes.

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