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| 100%
| dexvert
| Mailbox/MIME Entity (archive/mbox)
| magic
| Supported |
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| dexvert
| Text File (text/txt)
| fallback
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| file
| Mailbox text, 1st line "From The March/April 1991 Issue Of Telecomputing Magazine"
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| file
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| perlTextCheck
| Likely Text (Perl)
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| siegfried
| x-fmt/111 Plain Text File
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| detectItEasy
| Format: plain text[CRLF]
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