Decipher binary format of file

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Published on 2010-03-08T03:43:27Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 3:51 UTC
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I have a binary file to which I'm trying to write however I dont have the file format specification nor have found it using google, I've been looking at the file using a hex editor but so far has only give me a headache, is there a better way to decipher the format of the file so that I can append data to it?

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