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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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