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Signatures
External signatures File extension: dif
Internal signatures
Name Data Interchange Format
Description Header begins with TABLE on first line, the pair 0,1 on the second line, a title string in quotes on the third line and VECTORS on the fourth line.
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order Little-endian
Value 5441424C450D0A302C310D0A22{1-100}220D0A564543544F52530D0A
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