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On Windows, a normal text file can be saved with the .txt file extension. However, at the same
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A file extension is not a file format, it is just part of the name used by convention to indicate what is text file extensions
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in the file, and what tool and options should be used to interact with it.
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Some old systems - notably MS-DOS, and Windows before Windows 95 - had a fixed format for
filenames allowing up to eight characters, a dot, then up to three characters. So there are many 0 Where to put txt file
conventions for indicating file types in three characters. That restriction is now rarely relevant, so
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more recent conventions will often use longer extensions to be more obvious and less ambiguous.

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".txt" is simply the conventional way to indicate "this is intended to be read as plain text" in three
letters. ".text" indicates the same thing, but less abbreviated when not restricted to "8.3" filenames. Does file type rely on file extension?
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Neither name tells you any more about the file. For instance, to actually read the text you need to Difference between .java and .txt files
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know what character encoding was intended. ASCII is a common baseline, sufficient for English text
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Do you know whether .text is as widely supported by file managers (etc)? – RokeJulianLockhart Oct 14 at referencing
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