Glossary for Geospatial Science

ASCII file:� A text-only file.� Documents in most word processors are not text-only files, since they include binary header information and formatting characters.� However most word processors import so-called ASCII files and have an Export, Save/Text-only, or print-to-file utility that converts a document into an �ASCII� format.� However, these files are not true ASCII files because they may include the characters from 128-255.� The characters in this range are different between platforms such as PCs and Macintoshes and even from font to font with a platform, and are not part of the standard 7-bit ASCII code.� (See also: ASCII.)