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- WIFSPEC.001 13-Apr-94
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- *** PRELIMINARY ***
- WIF: A Standard for Text-Based Interchange of DOOM WAD Files
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- Well, here it is! Sorry it took so long, I got sidetracked.
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- This is the first stab at a formal specification for a text-based WAD
- interchange format. It starts where id's DWD leaves off, and hopefully
- has plenty of room for the things WAD editor writers want.
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- WADs written in this way could be uploaded to the Net without loss of
- data, merged together in interesting ways, manipulated by a broader range
- of processing programs (like an ordinary text editor), and commented
- in-WAD much more fully than is possible today.
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- I urge all interested parties to read this over and send me any comments
- you might have.
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- By the way, if 12 pages seems like a lot for a simple little spec, it's
- because this is intended to nail it down definitively, so that even if we
- all go off and do other things, a WAD author three years from now could
- look and say, That's compliant or that's not. This is how Internet RFC's
- work, and that's what this WIF spec is patterned after.
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- Happy DOOM'ing!
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- Tom Neff tneff@panix.com ...!uunet!panix!tneff
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