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| Extended Type 3000 Similar to a "Standard" Type 3000 file, except that it is not limited to 26 subrecords. Extended Type 5000 Similar to a "Standard" Type 5000 file, except that it is not limited to 14 subrecords. Support for Extended Type 3000/5000 Increasing the number of subrecords is done by extending the size of the adjunct header beyond 256 bytes. A field in the main header specifies the data start position, so this does not cause problems with reading the data in the file. Extended Type 3000/5000 files are not part of version 1.0 of the BLUE file specification and are only supported by NeXtMidas. There is ongoing discussion about including Extended Type 3000 files in version 1.1 of BLUE file specification since this would allow users to create Type 3000 files with 26+ subrecords without the need to use a Type 6000 file.