docs: Make README plain text file

Signed-off-by: Chloe M <chloe@faracom.org>

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+-- RDAR --
+
+RDAR stands for Reduced Disk Archive Format and serves to be a minimal bundle format (similar to tar)
+for various applications, primarily operating system initial ramdisks. RDAR does not intend to
+replace existing formats and instead aims to provide a potential alternative to them for
+minimalists.
+
+-- BUILDING --
+
+To build, you'll need bop. This can be found at https://aptel.org/bop/
+
+-- FORMAT --
+
+The format is simple:
+
+   0: root [points to root data region (rdr)]
+  /
+ /
+0~  [DATA DESCRIPTOR] ---------+ OFFSET
+1~  [DATA DESCRIPTOR] -------- |---+ OFFSET
+2~  [FILE]  <------------------+   |
+3~  [FILE]  <----------------------+