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 <b>About OpenNBT</b>
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-OpenNBT is a continuation of Graham Edgecombe's jNBT library.
+OpenNBT is a library for reading and writing NBT files, originally a continuation of Graham Edgecombe's jNBT library before it was rewritten.
 
 
 <b>License</b>