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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: IFF
- Message-ID: <34567@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 23:31:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug4.195003.21681@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <BsJ2rM.93z@well.sf.ca.us>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- shf@well.sf.ca.us (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
- >+-- mjp3783@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- >| When C= introduced the Amiga, they (along with EA) produced a standard called
- >| IFF. But the machine doesn't follow the standard. The standard is designed to
- >| "package" any kind of data. According to the standard "File compatability is
- >| easy to achieve if programmers let go of one notion -- dumping internal data
- >| structures to disk."
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- >| What I am proposing is that ALL files that work with the OS should be
- >| IFF format. Make anything the OS does use IFF's. This consistancy would
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- You may have noted that for 2.0, we made all the prefs files IFF.
- We do like IFF, we also have various compatibility constraints.
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- "Rev on the redline, you're on your own; seems like a lifetime, but soon it's
- gone..." Foreigner
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- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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