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> From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
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>> Why are there headings then?
> God knows.. They'd have been binary files if I had got there first.

Compromise please! 0-padded hex with fixed offsets gives
a human readable file that is also _very_ machine readable.

The headings are no problem: add enough spaces for future expansion.
Maybe even let heading+padding total 512 bytes. That way programs
can just seek past the heading to get to the data at some fixed offset.



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