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+AFL starting test cases
+=======================
+
+  (See ../docs/README for the general instruction manual.)
+
+The archives/, images/, multimedia/, and others/ subdirectories contain small,
+standalone files that can be used to seed afl-fuzz when testing parsers for a
+variety of common data formats.
+
+There is probably not much to be said about these files, except that they were
+optimized for size and stripped of any non-essential fluff. Some directories
+contain several examples that exercise various features of the underlying format.
+For example, there is a PNG file with and without a color profile.
+
+Additional test cases are always welcome.
+
+In addition to well-chosen starting files, many fuzzing jobs benefit from a
+small and concise dictionary. See ../dictionaries/README.dictionaries for more.