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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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