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Name SPSS Portable
Description From the format description (http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp-dev/html_node/Portable-File-Header.html): "The first 200-byte segment is divided into five 40-byte sections, each of which represents the string charset SPSS PORT FILE in a different character set encoding, where charset is the name of the character set used in the file, e.g. ASCII or EBCDIC. Each string is padded on the right with spaces in its respective character set." The order is: EBCDIC, 7-bit ASCII, CDC 6-bit ASCII, 6-bit ASCII, Honeywell 6-bit ASCII.
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Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Maximum Offset 0
Byte order  
Value C1E2C3C9C940E2D7E2E240D7D6D9E340C6C9D3C540404040404040404040404040404040404040404153434949205350535320504F52542046494C4520202020202020202020202020202020202020200D0A30303030302D303030302D303030302D303030302D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2133232929303330333330302F32343026292C2530303030303030303030303030303030303030300D0A303230303030322732323027262933303030233030303030303030303030303030303030
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