RE: Synonym for binary file?

Subject: RE: Synonym for binary file?
From: "Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:50:16 -0500


Jumping in late...

Why not just define binary for them? Then you could use the term, AND
you'd educate some non-computer-savvy people.

BILL SWALLOW
Information Design & Development Professional
tel/fax: 518.371.1867
wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com


::: -----Original Message-----
::: My company makes a product that manages both plain ASCII
::: text and binary
::: files (such as graphic files or .pdf files). A significant
::: portion of our
::: end-user audience is not very computer-savvy, so our
::: marketing people
::: object to us referring to "binary files" in our end-user
::: documentation.
::: They have a valid point, but I don't know of any synonyms
::: for "binary
::: files". I've checked several online dictionaries (FOLDOC, Whatis,
::: Webopedia, to name a few)for the definition, hoping it
::: would point me to an
::: alternative term, but I've had no luck.
:::
::: Terms like compiled or non-ASCII files really don't offer
::: much improvement,
::: since these users wouldn't know compiling or ASCII any
::: better than binary.
:::
::: Has anyone had to use a synonym for "binary file"? Does
::: any one have any
::: other suggestions?



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