Everything permanently saved in a computer is a digital file, identified by file name. Program files in storage are written into memory for execution, and data files are written into memory for processing (see
3 C's). Depending on the size of the file and memory capacity, a file is written into memory in part or in whole. See
digital and
memory.
Everything Stored Is a File
The common unit of storage no matter what the application is the file. See
file.