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text file format. A .txt file is most commonly used for simple
text files made in notepad, usually with nothing more special than Unicode characters, as opposed to its counterpart .rtf (
Rich Text File) which can contain multimedia (images, colored text, etc.). Text files nowadays are mostly used for README.txt files that a program developer puts in their app directory to say some basic information or warnings to the
user. They are also used to contain scripts for various programming languages (C, C++, Java, Python)
even though they have their own file formats. (.c, .
cpp, .json, . py). Other uses of text files are nowadays obsolete since they are mostly replaced with word files with the file extension .docx
