| Subject | English | German |
| comp., MS | comma-delimited text file | durch Trennzeichen getrennte Textdatei (A data file consisting of fields and records, stored as text, in which the fields are separated from each other by commas) |
| comp., MS | delimited text file | durch Trennzeichen getrennte Textdatei (A file containing data where individual field values are separated by a character, such as a comma or a tab) |
| comp., MS | fixed-width text file | Textdatei mit fester Breite (A file containing data, where each field has a fixed width) |
| commun., IT | help text files | Hilfedatei |
| IT, dat.proc. | save in DOS text file | Sichern in DOS-Datei |
| gen. | text file | Textfile |
| comp., MS | text file | Textdatei (" A file composed of text characters. A text file can be a word-processing file or a "plain" ASCII file encoded in a format practically all computers can use.") |
| gen. | text file | Textdatei |
| IT, dat.proc. | text-only file | reine Textdatei |
| comp., MS | text-only file | Datei im Textformat (A document file in ASCII format, containing characters, spaces, punctuation, carriage returns, and sometimes tabs and an end-of-file marker, but no formatting information) |
| IT, dat.proc. | text-only file format | ASCII-Format |
| IT, dat.proc. | text-only-with-line-breaks file | ASCII-Datei mit Zeilenumbruch |