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| - Information about TXT |
| Id |
| 23 |
| File extension |
| txt |
| File category |
| Document file |
| Stands for |
| Raw text file |
| Developer |
| Microsoft |
| Overview |
| TXT is the file format which is used to store standard text where information is put together with no special effects. A computer file system is used to pile up the data. This unformatted text is just a series of text where only the font style can be altered. This is especially used to make notes in which the appearance of things do not matter. Microsoft Notepad and Apple TextEdit are the two examples of this plain text software. The corrupted data can be retrieved with ease and one can continue his work on the same file. The main advantages of this are the sequence of bytes in storage (endianness) and padding bytes that is inserting of empty bytes between memory addresses. Contrary, entropy is a demerit in this format which means that it takes more storage space than required. |
| Technical description |
| In TXT, there is no need for additional metadata, the reader is only expected to know the character set. ASCII is the most compatible in this case where it comprises of letters, numbers and symbols or special characters. In Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS, Carriage return (CR) and Line feed (LF) are the two characters that are used to separate the text of each line. CR act as a control character which resets itself to the beginning of the current line text. On the other hand, LF indicates the end of a line of the text and it moves to the opening of a new line. These files are especially used to keep the source code where file name suffixes indicate the programming language in which source is penned. |
| Links |
| wikipedia.org |
| - Information about DOC |
| Id |
| 28 |
| File extension |
| doc |
| File category |
| Document file |
| Stands for |
| Document (Microsoft Word Binary File Format) |
| Developer |
| Microsoft |
| Overview |
| Doc extension is used for word processing documents which are prepared using Microsoft Word or any other processing program, for instance - OpenOffice Writer, IBM Lotus Symphony, AbiWord and Apple Pages. The file may include all sort of text, images, tables, graphs and charts; etc. A user can also edit the text using page formatting where one can insert hyperlinks, change the margin, choose the alignment, can use varied font size including style and also there are different options for print settings. In the recent versions, one can add audio, images, sounds and videos in the document file. This can be used to write various types of letters, resumes, essays and invitations; etc. These files are editable. |
| Technical description |
| Earlier the doc files just contained the formatted text but with the development, now these files may include numerous objects like charts, graphs, tables and all other media components. It can also have a mail merge information. This aforesaid feature is used for mass mailing in which a number of letters with the fixed or same text are sent to multiple or distinct people with a different mailing address. Few word processing templates can be used to put content from database, spreadsheet or table into the text documents. In the 1980s, this extension was used by WordPerfect for their proprietary format but later in 1983, Microsoft chose to use this extension for their Microsoft Word which is their product. The specifications are not publically available for this file, yet, some of them are available in ‘Microsoft Open Specification Promise' which was released on 15th February 2008. |
| Links |
| wikipedia.org |
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