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- From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
- Subject: Re: IFF8 & IFF miscellaneous questions
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- References: <1992Nov10.232309.18659@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Message-ID: <johnv.03la@acix.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:49:25 WST
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- Val Kartchner (val@news.ccutah.edu) wrote:
- > What are the current IFF forms with brief descriptions? (Is there an FTP
- > site available for this? Commodore should really place their PD source
- > code and software on commodore.com and allow anonymous FTP.) Let me start:
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- Check out the new RKM Devices manual Appendix A for a listing &
- explanation of all the public IFF chunks. They have released IFF source
- code & examples to the Fish disks (including 2 or 3 whole disks) along
- with numerous other examples.
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- > Graphics ILBM InterLeaved BitMap (Various hunks for graphics modes)
- > Music SMUS Standard MUSic (no one uses)
- > Text FTXT Formatted TeXT (no one uses)
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This is not true. SMUS is used by AmigaVision & Sonix, FTXT is used by
- anything that writes to the clipboard.
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