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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
Message-ID: <46@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 91 09:20:07 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.044840.1404@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun8.074935.781@neon.Stanford.EDU> <38@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun9.084438.8745@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

"  The Amiga method is way more flexible. Using IFF it's possible
(if developers would implement it) to cut and paste TEXT, Graphics,
SOUND, Animation segments, brushes, Music arrangements, and even
3-d objects! This is because the Amiga has one file format for all
of these, IFF. An application would simply need to check the header
(ILBM=Bitmap, ANIM=Animation, DCMS=Music, 8SVX=Digitized sound,
FXTX=Text, DR2D=Cad objects, TDDD=Turbo Silver 3-d object
format) And iffparse.library makes this task even easier."

The Macintosh is much more flexible and standardized than any OS I know of.
It has standard formats for all of those, and up to 2,020 "types" can be in
one file! Have you heard of resources? ('snd ' for sound, 'TEXT' for 
formatted text, PICT for graphics. Animation, Code, and just about everything
else is all standardized). As a matter of fact nearly every file has these
resources (ICONs, PICTures, snd's, MENUs, etc) that can be modified by other
programs.