A computer file is a
resource for storing information, which is available to a computer
program and is usually based on some kind of durable storage.
A file is durable in the sense that it remains available for programs to
use after the current program has finished. Computer files can be considered as
the modern counterpart of paper documents which traditionally are kept in offices' and
libraries' files, and this is the source of the term. A group
of files used by the same program can be packed into one archive
file (cf.).
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