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Further Explorations

For more information about the defaults system, see the PDF book titled System Overview, located at /Developer/Documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/SystemOverview/SystemOverview.pdf.

You may also want to consult the following manpages:

defaults
strings
plutil

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