Digital File
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A Digital File is a machine processable item that is encoded with bits and stored in a data storage device.
- AKA: Computer/Electronic File.
- Context:
- It can have a File Format.
- It can be managed by a File System.
- It can range from being a Binary File to being a Text File.
- It can be created by a Computer File Creation Task.
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- Example(s):
- a Data File, such as a digital document, digital image file, configuration file, a log file.
- a Program File.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: File, Digital Photography.
References
2009
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_file
- A computer file is a block of arbitrary information, or resource for storing information, which is available to a computer program and is usually based on some kind of durable storage. A file is durable in the sense that it remains available for programs to use after the current program has finished. Computer files can be considered as the modern counterpart of paper documents which traditionally are kept in offices' and libraries' files, and this is the source of the term.