Convert any file into a binary file and vice versa. Ask Question 2. There is no-'no binary' files in the computer world. HEX means base 16 system, you can easily convert it to 2 based (1,0). Convert your file to hexadecimal $ xxd originalFile > hexaFile.
Convert text into binary. Computers store all characters as numbers stored as binary data. Binary code uses the digits of 0 and 1 (binary numbers) to represent computer instructions or text. Each instruction or symbol gets a bit string assignment.
The strings can correspond to instructions, letters, or symbols. In computing, these codes are used for encoding data. This base-2 or binary numeral system is used in mathematics and computer science.
The system represents values using just the two symbols. The values in the binary systems are typically called binary numbers. In digital electronics and more specifically in digital electronic circuits that use logic gates (with values of 0 and 1), computers use the binary system internally. Computer based devices use the binary system as well with this including mobile phones. You can convert to and from binary and the base-10 system typically used by humans.
You can also convert to and from binary and hexadecimal where you need four digits of binary to represent one digit of hex. Converting to and from binary and octal is another possibility. It takes three binary digits to represent an octal digit.
Binary 000 is octal digit 0. With binary code you use the binary numbering sytem to represent text or instructions.
I've searched in StackOverFlow website and over the internet for this question and its relevant questions but I still haven't got a clear answer. I want to know what software may I use to convert any file (regarding size) into a text file that contains zeros and ones (only) of this specific file, then convert this text file that contains these zeros and ones back to the original file. Execuse my ignorance if the files that contains zeros and ones are not called 'binary files', I searched the internet and read in wikipedia there are software called hex dump, I don't need those, I need what I mentioned above, thank you all.
Can you explain what you'd use it for? Novelty value, I can understand, or as a programming exercise, but outside that it doesn't make much sense. A text file containing zeros and ones really contains bytes as well, which are number values that represent ASCII or UTF codepoints 30 and 31.
By doing this change you will make the file 8 times bigger, for what benefit? You're better off encoding each original byte as two hex digits, the information content is the same, the output is only 2x bigger,.
You can use a hex dump/viewer and there's loads of them. – May 8 '16 at 19:12. The thing is, that all the files are already are binary, you just need any HEX viewer to see them properly, as they are.
For instance, you can use 'Compare by content' from Total Commander). There is no-'no binary' files in the computer world. HEX means, you can easily convert it to 2 based (1,0), by using simple windows calculator in Programmer mode: In the picture below, a text file has been compared by itself, using Binary switch, just to show it's content in HEX way, and first digit is '66', we place it into calculator when HEX mode is activated and then switch to BIN, and have 1100110 - this for letter 'f' and so on. Interesting thing is that there is no real emphasis on this matter in nor other sites, I think this is totally confusing for people who don't know this already, I think they should have the word binary in the first line of definition of the computer file.
A computer file in its deepest level is binary data, not a piece of information in lines and some different (from binary) formats. The file format is only a protocol to store bytes and information it becomes only when it has been read or opened by someone or something in understandable way, meaning that the user, or client software knows how that data (bytes) has been written in this particular file.
Wikipedia has split files to binary and non-binary! Thank God I don't need to read this. Software to create text representatives from binary input and vice versa.