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| Confidence | Program | Detection | Match Type | Support
|
|---|
| 100%
| dexvert
| DOSIMG Disk Image (archive/dosimg)
| magic
| Supported |
| 66%
| dexvert
| Alias PIX Image (image/aliasPIX)
| ext
| Supported |
| 66%
| dexvert
| GEM Raster Bitmap (image/gem)
| ext
| Supported |
| 66%
| dexvert
| DaVinci (image/daVinci)
| ext
| Supported |
| 46%
| dexvert
| Disk Image (archive/diskImage)
| ext
| Supported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| AIX/BFF backup/restore (archive/aixBackupRestore)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| The Duplicator Toolkit disk image (archive/duplicatorToolkitDiskImage)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| PTS-DOS disk image (archive/ptsDOSDiskImage)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| QNX volume disk image (archive/qnxVolumeDiskImage)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| SNATCH-IT Disk Image (archive/snatchItDiskImage)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| Android boot image (archive/androidBootImage)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| Paragon DOS disk image (archive/paragonDOSDiskImage)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| QEMU QCOW Image (archive/qemuQCOWImage)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| Davilex Games game data format (other/davilexGamesGameDataFormat)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| Eclipse Image (other/eclipseImage)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| InfoComics game data (other/infoComicsGameData)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| Garmin map (other/garminMap)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| Piklib/BlooMoo graphic data (other/piklibGraphicData)
| ext
| Unsupported |
| 100%
| file
| data
| default
| |
| 100%
| TrID
| DOSIMG disk image (80t/15s)
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