File Overhead and Other Features
When data you create is stored in a computer, it must be stored in a particular arrangement suitable for the program that created the information. This arrangement of information is called the file format.
A few programs, such as MS-DOS Edit and Windows Notepad, store only the text you create. What if you want to boldface a certain word in the text? A text-only editor can't do it. All that Edit and Notepad can store is text. As you have seen, in text-only storage, a character equals a byte.
In computer storage, however, pure text is seldom stored alone. WordPad and other word-processing programs such as Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect enable you to boldface, underline, italicize, and make text larger or smaller. ...
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