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.

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