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From: bartonr@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Robert Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: ILBM spec
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Date: 25 Jun 89 17:52:25 GMT
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 jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Jamie Zawinski) writes:

>    BMHD   -- manditory header info, but not necessarily first
>    BODY   -- manditory bitmap data

  Nope, believe it or not, the BODY chunk is not a required part of an ILBM
FORM.  According to the docs, this was done to allow an ILBM to represent a
color palette without any accompanying image (by setting nPlanes to 0).
The only mandatory chunk is the BMHD.