Which of the following are more likely to contain text data orbinary data and wh

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Which of the following are more likely to contain text data orbinary data and why: a) A file of object code produced by a C compiler. b) A program listing produced by a C compiler. c) An email message sent from one computer to another. d) A file containing a graphics image. Which of the following are more likely to contain text data orbinary data and why: a) A file of object code produced by a C compiler. b) A program listing produced by a C compiler. c) An email message sent from one computer to another. d) A file containing a graphics image.

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Which of the following are more likely to contain text data orbinary data and why: a) A file of object code produced bya C compiler. -object code is nothing more then the assemblylanguage as it comes out of the compiler. It is text.
b) A program listing produced bya C compiler. - in a compiler there is an option for the programlisting to be output or not. this listing is nothing more than thesource code (program) as written by the programmer. It istext
c) An email message sent from onecomputer to another.-while an e-mail is transmitted it isconverted into MIME text, which is a form of text, however attachments such as sound andpictures are binary
d) A file containing a graphicsimage. -this is in a coded form, it is binary

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