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| dexvert
| Mailbox/MIME Entity (archive/mbox)
| magic
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| dexvert
| Swift 3D 3D Graphic (poly/swift3D3DGraphic)
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| Mailbox text, 1st line "From uwm.edu!rutgers!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!milton!sumax!polari!halcyon.wa.com Sun Apr 28 19:37:49 CDT 1991", ASCII text
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