UNDERSTANDING COMPUTER FILES
FILE SYSTEMS
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ASCII
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ANSI
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IANA
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IEEE
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Detailed explanation-1: -ASCII encodes characters into seven bits of binary data. Since each bit can either be a 1 or a 0, that gives a total of 128 possible combinations. Each of these binary numbers can be converted to denary number from 0 through to 127. For example 1000001 in binary equals 65 in denary.
Detailed explanation-2: -ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common character encoding format for text data in computers and on the internet. In standard ASCII-encoded data, there are unique values for 128 alphabetic, numeric or special additional characters and control codes.
Detailed explanation-3: -An ASCII file is a binary file that stores ASCII codes. Recall that an ASCII code is a 7-bit code stored in a byte. To be more specific, there are 128 different ASCII codes, which means that only 7 bits are needed to represent an ASCII character.