G-code is effective, easily edited, and nearly ubiquitous when it comes to anything CNC. The format has many strengths, but space efficiency isn’t one of them. In fact, when it comes to 3D printing in ...

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 across ...

A computer file format in which all eight bits of the byte are used for data. Executable software (machine language programs), most word processing, database, spreadsheet and multimedia files are ...

Excel files bloat from ghost used ranges, formatting, pivot caches, and images. These quick fixes massively cut the size of ...

(1) Numbers stored in pure binary form in contrast to their decimal representation. See binary numbers and binary file. (2) All data/information stored in the computer, which is coded in binary. See ...

Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web. The web ...

Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it has made technical information about all of its Office binary file formats openly available to outside software developers, while promising never to sue them for ...