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Comment on There are basically 4 types of files : text, image, audio and audio visual, right ?

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

There is structured text and formatted text.

There are index files.

There are databases.

There are mixed media files.

t.b.c.

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Executable files.

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LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A database is a file ?

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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Depends on the database system. But that’s often the case.
  
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- Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes, of course. Even if it claims to be on a harddisk without a file system - which makes it the only file there :)
  
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- Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well, unless it is an in-memory database (which isn’t too common), it needs to be stored on disk at some point. And for storing things on disk, you use one or more files.
  
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