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DIST files: what are they and how do I open them?

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.dist file type #1: Apple Mac OS X Installer distribution script

Files with dist file extension are associated with the Apple Mac OS X Installer distribution scripts (macOS Installer distribution scripts)-

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The dist file extension is related to the installation of Apple Mac OS X (macOS) operating system developed by Apple.

The dist file stores installation scripts for customize system installation.

The dist scripts were introduced in NeXTSTEP operating system.

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NeXTSTEP

NeXTSTEP is operating system for NeXT computers

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macOS

A Unix-based desktop operating system for Apple Mac computers

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Mac OS X

Unix-based operating system for Apple Mac computers

.dist file type #2: SAM scoring data

Files with dist file suffix are related to the Sequence Alignment and Modeling system.

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The dist file extension is associated with the SAM (Sequence Alignment and Modeling system) software.

The dist file is a scoring file listing sequence identifiers, lengths, and scores, produced by hmmscore.

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Sequence Alignment and Modeling system

Software tools for creating, refining, and using linear hidden Markov models for biological sequence analysis

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