Explain the differences between a text file, an ASCII file and a binary file.

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Text files are files that appear to contain sequences of characters when viewed in a text editor or read by a program. Text files are sometimes also called ASCII files because they contain data encoded using a scheme known as ASCII coding. Files whose contents must be handled as sequences of binary digits are called binary files.

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