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From: jmarvin@.oracle.com (John W. Marvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: DCTV, COLORBURST, TOASTER tech info wanted
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.203411.12811@oracle.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 20:34:11 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.022053.6170@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes:
>
>Does anyone know why NewTek and DC are keeping their file formats
>secret?!?  It makes no sense to me, unless they have something to
>hide! :-)
>Loren J. Rittle
>-- 
Yes.  If you make a file format public, you are stuck with it.
You can't change it w/o breaking all those other products.  I
belive NewTek & DC support IFF 24 (which, IMHO is fairly brain
dead, All the red zero bits for eight pixels in one byte!?!),
so they do support access to their images.

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