Executable software (machine language programs), most word processing, database, spreadsheet and multimedia files are binary files. However, text and source program files as well as HTML and XML ...

If you ever need to write a binary file from a traditional language like C, it isn’t all that hard to do. About the worst thing you might have to deal with is attempts to fake line endings ...

Performed by a utility program, binary compares are often required when programmers create or modify apps and need to make sure a newly generated file is the same as the old. If two documents are ...