created: 07/04/96; 2nd edition: 03/20/01; cleaned and oiled: 09/17/01

# CHAPTER 5 — Representing Characters with Bit Patterns

Patterns of bits represent many types of things. This chapter shows how bit patterns are used to represent characters.

> - ASCII
> - Control characters.
> - Teletype Machines.
> - .asciiz and null terminated strings.
> - Disk files.
> - Text files.
> - Binary files.
> - Executable files.

### QUESTION 1:

What else (besides characters and integers) can be represented with bit patterns?