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Proprietary file format

A proprietary file format is a file format of a company, organization, or individual that contains data that is ordered and stored according to a particular encoding-scheme, such that the decoding and interpretation of this stored data is easily accomplished only with particular software or hardware that the company itself has developed. In contrast, an o…

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Proprietary file format

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Triples1
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
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Proprietary file format

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Proprietary file format → file format of a company

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Proprietary file formatis afile format of a company0.90text

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