bytestring

Noun

 * 1)  A text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.
 * 2) * 1994, Richard T. Snodgrass, Marianne Southall Winslett, Association for Computing Machinery. Special Interest Group on Management of Data, Proceedings (page 255)
 * However, the underlying file model of these approaches is that of Unix files (i.e., bytestrings), whereas we assume record-structured files with key-based access.