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strip file

English translation: plain file

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English term or phrase:strip file
Selected answer:plain file
Entered by: Chris Rowson (X)

08:22 Jun 4, 2002
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial
English term or phrase: strip file
Even in the case of extended outages, the system retains sufficient data
locally in a strip file to facilitate teller and branch balancing.
(banking system)
Any explanation of the term appreciated.

Luke
plain file
Explanation:
I don´t know exactly what it means, but when I worked in IT I would not have been surprised to read something like this, and would roughly understand it straight off, as I still do.

I can see two possible meanings, though there may well be others. They are not a lot different from each other.

1) It might mean stripped-out data
2) It might refer to a sequential file, what we used to call a flat file.

Either way it is just a simple file of data, one record written after another, which at least records the necessary data, if not in an easily ccessible format.
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Chris Rowson (X)
Local time: 05:11
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4 +2stripped file
fcl
2 +1plain file
Chris Rowson (X)


  

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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
plain file


Explanation:
I don´t know exactly what it means, but when I worked in IT I would not have been surprised to read something like this, and would roughly understand it straight off, as I still do.

I can see two possible meanings, though there may well be others. They are not a lot different from each other.

1) It might mean stripped-out data
2) It might refer to a sequential file, what we used to call a flat file.

Either way it is just a simple file of data, one record written after another, which at least records the necessary data, if not in an easily ccessible format.

Chris Rowson (X)
Local time: 05:11
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 243

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Katsuhiko KAKUNO, Ph.D.
1 day 1 hr
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
stripped file


Explanation:
a file that has been stripped of everything that is not absolutely necessary.

HTH

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Note added at 2002-06-04 09:28:13 (GMT)
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For an utility to create developpers strip files, see:

http://www.opennc.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/strip.html

fcl
France
Local time: 05:11
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Piotr Kurek
3 hrs
agree  Petra Molenaar
6 hrs
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