Definition: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange): a standard code used for representing information on computer systems and networks. It uses the printing and non-printing characters that can be generated by the keyboard. Since 7 bits are available to represent each character it is possible to represent a total of 128 different characters. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
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