What type of file can most software applications read?

text files

Explanation:

Text files are the files with .txt extension. They are the files that are basically not executable and contain just characters (letters, numbers and punctuations) without any special formatting. They are also called ASCII files.

Text files can be defined in different formats such as the ASCII for cross-platform use and can be read by most software applications and as a matter of fact source codes of programming languages (such as JavaScript, PHP) are written in text files but later changed to their corresponding extensions (.js and .php).

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