Talk:Binary file

message: Wanna talk about binary and how uberley geeky it is?
010000110110000101101110001000000111100101101111011101010010000001110010011001010110000101100100001000000111010001101000011010010111001100111111
--Caleb09 02:39, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Binary Code 

message: In ordinary usage they are typically contrasted with binary files, so that binary files are all files which do not contain merely plain text.
I believe this sentence could be simplified. This would allow less articulate readers to understand the sentence structure in a more timely fashion.
I believe the sentence  be rephrased to "In many cases, plain text files are considered to be different from binary files because binary files are made up of more than just plain text."Trevbork 16:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think that the first sentence of the first paragraph should be rephrased. 

message: In a binary computer system, pretty much all files are binary - to call a binary file not human readable is a bit bizarre too because humans can read the binary data - they just may not make sense of what it is supposed to convey without a program (or OS function) such as a binary to ASCII translator. 
"ZhuLien 16:58, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  this statement is actually incorrect 

message: Hexadecimal representations are excellent for human (or at least geek) consumption.  But since this is an article on binary, don't you think we should, you know, have an actual binary example?  Both graphics show hex, not binary representations.  Perhaps one showing hex and one binary would be better. N2e 02:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What does data actually look like? Yes, you are right, hex digits are a representation of data, but so is anything else that you could possibly display on a computer screen. Data does not have any inherently visible shape or form. Even a string of '1' and '0' glyphs still is just a representation: It's not what the data actually looks like. 173.75.33.51 (talk) 19:37, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/173.75.33.51 189.191.220.22 (talk) 03:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs an actual '''binary example''' 

message: how do i get a converter and get a hexidecimal chart
another question how do i make a binary file. i tried and failed.  68.54.237.203 (talk) 01:10, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Look at the hexadecimal charts at hexadecimal.  As for making a binary file, it entirely depends on what the purpose of the file is.  For example, native Microsoft Word .doc and .rtf files are binary files.  Creating a binary file depends somewhat on what operating system environment you use.  —EncMstr (talk) 01:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  well i need help 

message: I suggest merging binary compatible, binary compatibility, and binary code compatibility
into subsections of the binary file article.
--DavidCary (talk) 14:12, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose - a "binary file" does not necessarily contain "binary code" in the sense of machine code or some virtual machine code for an interpreter.  Binary code compatibility (to which binary compatibility redirects) discusses "binary compatibility" in the sense of "this machine running this version of this OS can run code for this other machine running this other OS or this other version of the same OS"; that page is the correct page for discussing that.  The "Binary compatibility" section of this page (to which binary compatible currently links) discusses a notion of binary compatibility that includes more than just executable files - for example, a word processor or spreadsheet that has versions for, say, Windows, OS X, and pick-your-Linux-distribution-and-desktop-environment and for which the file format is the same in all versions is an example of that form of binary compatibility.  The "executable code" flavor of binary compatibility is sufficiently specialized that it should be discussed in the context of executable code, not binary files in general. Guy Harris (talk) 19:16, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge