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  "name": "Watcom C 6.5: reconstructing damaged runtime libraries",
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    "The specified original Watcom C 6.5 archive, Python 3.8+ and DOSBox-X.",
    "The provenance record identifies rebuilt modules with no surviving bytes for comparison and gives their confidence levels.",
    "MIT license."
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    "需要指定的 Watcom C 6.5 原始归档、Python 3.8 或更新版本以及 DOSBox-X。",
    "来源记录标明哪些重建模块没有幸存字节可供比较，并给出其可信度。",
    "MIT 许可证。"
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