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From: rap@rap.ardent.com (Rob Peck)
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Subject: Re: IFF.library (was: Re: Stupid Wishes)
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Date: 13 Jun 89 16:09:50 GMT
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In article <3373@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes:
>
>I don't remember who, but I seem to recall
>that somebody said they were working on an iff.library.

There are now at least two different iff.library workers, one
is on either FISH disk 164 or 173, but I have heard (though not
yet noticed) that there are some bugs in it.  The bug report
comes from someone at Amiga World who claims to have received
a more recent copy (and will be sending it to me RSN).  The
other iff-ish.library is from Leo Schwab and friend (Scott E? if
I remember right).  He declares it as version 0.31 or so, and has
not yet released it for general distribution.  Great docs Leo --
wish I'd had time to actually test it out.

Actually, Leo's is an iff PARSER library, "hand me the next chunk
in this file that looks like this", I believe.  For example, it
does not have functions for unpacking interleaved bit maps, leaving
the processing of iff chunks to the caller.  Wanna release any details
Leo?

Rob Peck