ersally recognized text format called ASCII (American Standard
Code for Information Interchange). An ASCII file contains characters, spaces,
punctuation, carriage returns, and sometimes tabs and an end-of-file marker,
but it contains no formatting information. This generic format is useful for
transferring files between programs that could not otherwise understand each
other's documents. See also text file.</p>

<h4 class="glossary">attributes</h4>
<p>Information that indicates whether a file is a read-only