BIN Command Abbreviation

Binary File

A binary file is a file whose content must be interpreted by a program or a hardware processor that understands in advance exactly how it is formatted. That is, the file is not in any externally identifiable format so that any program that wanted to could look for certain data at a certain place within the file. A progam or hardware processor has to know exactly how the data inside the file is laid out to make use of the file.