Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!texbell!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: IFF CAT archiver (was: Voice Mail on Amiga) Message-ID: <4384@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 18 Oct 89 03:45:26 GMT References: <688@orange6.qtp.ufl.edu> <125829@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4283@sugar.hackercorp.com> <14085@well.UUCP> <4361@sugar.hackercorp.com> <14134@well.UUCP> Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 27 In article <14134@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes: >The problem comes in when you try to archive an IFF file which is a LIST or >a CAT, such as one of these iffar archives. You are absolutely correct. 'iffar' should be considered broken with respect to creating CAT archives containing CATs and LISTs. >The thing I want to avoid is getting a proliferation of these slightly >out of spec files around and then having all this pressure to "bend" the >standard to adjust for them. Good point. Your remarks have increased my desire to create a new version that is more compliant. Archivers are tough to get "right," though, and they have to work pretty perfectly in terms of not losing anything or people end up wanting to kill you, so I still don't know when I'll be able to do it. >Since this is the first program I've seen that actually does >something interesting with generic IFF files, I don't want to knock it >down too badly. Thanks. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that -- flags do not wave in a vacuum." -- Arthur C. Clarke -- Usenet access: (713) 438-5018