flat-ASCII

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
flat-ASCII
 adj.

   [common] Said of a text file that contains only 7-bit ASCII characters
   and uses only ASCII-standard control characters (that is, has no
   embedded codes specific to a particular text formatter markup
   language, or output device, and no {meta}-characters). Syn.
   {plain-ASCII}. Compare {flat-file}.
    

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