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You can browse this item here: KARELIOT.TXT
| Confidence | Program | Detection | Match Type | Support
|
|---|
| 100%
| dexvert
| Mailbox/MIME Entity (archive/mbox)
| magic
| Supported |
| 100%
| dexvert
| Internet Message Format (text/imf)
| magic
| Supported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| Swift 3D 3D Graphic (poly/swift3D3DGraphic)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| Boost Text serialization (other/boostTextSerialization)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| Text File (text/txt)
| fallback
| Supported |
| 100%
| file
| Mailbox text, 1st line "From uwm.edu!bionet!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!po.CWRU.Edu!drz Wed Mar 6 22:00:15 CST 1991", ASCII text
| default
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| 100%
| TrID
| E-Mail message (Var. 2)
| default
| |
| 100%
| checkBytes
| Printable ASCII
| default
| |
| 100%
| perlTextCheck
| Likely Text (Perl)
| default
| |
| 100%
| siegfried
| x-fmt/111 Plain Text File
| default
| |
| 100%
| gt2
| Textdatei (UNIX)
| default
| |
| 100%
| detectItEasy
| Format: plain text[LF]
| default (weak)
| |
| 100%
| xdgMime
| application/mbox
| default
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