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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <4833.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 26 Jun 91 07:30:01 GMT
References: <85@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun22.045446.2732@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <102@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun24.092659.28842@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <119@ryptyde.UUCP>
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.
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Quoted from <119@ryptyde.UUCP> by dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy):
    [quoting someone else]
>        1. The basic capability of IFF and the Mac's typed files are
>           equivalent.

    So you can add "chunks", and things like that (the main advantage
    of IFF, next to being commonly used)? I've seen the format for what
    appear to be standard Macintosh picture files, and it is flaky in
    the extreme.

    Some files have an extra piece of junk on the front, while others
    don't (and in my program, I tell by checking if some particular
    byte is an alphanumeric... there may be some better way, but it
    wasn't apparent at the time). And the size of the picture is fixed.

    The only nice thing was that they used the same compression scheme
    that IFF ILBMs use. :)

    These are .MAC files on the local boards.
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