Binary to ascii

Hi, I have a binary file and I want to read and write to another file in ASCII (plain text). An example with a code snippet is appreciated.

Sorry if I'm confusing and I know that all files are
stored as binary behind the scnes.
But I have a file in binary format. I open it with a
text editor and you do not see plain text. Now I want
to convert this into plain text file and save it to
file system. So now when I open this converted file
with a text editor I should be able to read it.I'm sorry but this is just rubbish. I can provide you with dozens of binary file formats that cannot be interpreted as text. I will bet others in this forum will be be able to provide hundreds more.
You have to indicate how a binary file can be converted to text, even if it is only to say it needs to be Base64 or Hex encoded.

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