Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!dan From: dan@gacvx2.gac.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: BAD NEWS FOR MAC -> NEXT PEOPLE Message-ID: <1990Dec19.221955.10@gacvx2.gac.edu> Date: 20 Dec 90 04:19:55 GMT References: < <351@heaven.woodside.ca.us> > <38224@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <59938@microsoft.UUCP> Lines: 36 In article <59938@microsoft.UUCP>, edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG) writes: > In article amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes: >>In article <38224@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes: >>|> Sounds like Amiga's IFF to me. It's the only file format I've heard of >>|> that supports sampled sound, bitmap graphics, structured graphics, >>|> musical scores, animation, and core dumps in the same format. -- Darren >> >>There's always ISO ODA (Open Document Architecture). The spec is tough >>reading, but boy is it a generalized format... >> > RIFF, the file format recently introduced at the Multimedia Developer's > Conference, endorsed by IBM and Microsoft, and appearing in products > for MS/DOS, Windows, OS/2, and Macintosh, seems to be the emerging > standard. It is based upon IFF, which was a standard from Electronic > Arts, not from Commodore-Amiga (although it was most heavily leveraged > on the Amiga computers). > > I believe that Corel is actually planning to use RIFF to wrap multiple > rendering/editable formats into a single file for platform-neutral > file formats. If/when editable postscript or similar formats become > widely-accepted open standards, it seems likely that these will appear > in RIFF (which can accept any serializable format). > > -- > Edward Jung > Microsoft Corp. > > My opinions do not reflect any policy of my employer. Does anyone know where RIFF specs exist? -- Dan Boehlke Internet: dan@gac.edu Campus Network Manager BITNET: dan@gacvax1.bitnet Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082 USA Phone: (507)933-7596