The technical specification for the SGI Inventor format is provided as several documents:
CPYRIGHT.TXT is an ASCII copyright notice.
QREF1_0.TXT is an ASCII quick ref for v1.0.
TRANS1_0.TXT and TRANS2_0.TXT are ASCII documents describing how to write an IRIS Inventor file translator for v1.0 and v2.0, respectively.
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