Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac file types Message-ID: <1991Jun29.120243.8884@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Date: 29 Jun 91 12:02:43 GMT Article-I.D.: Sugar.1991Jun29.120243.8884 References: <1991Jun25.171020.5088@news.iastate.edu> <128@ryptyde.UUCP> <17338@chopin.udel.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 11 In article <17338@chopin.udel.edu> don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes: > As far as other platforms using IFF - IBM's already use it, due mainly to > the existence of the IBM version of DPaint. However, I read recently about > a proposed multimedia file exchange standard which is oddly similar to IFF... Plus, the International Midi Association's MFF (Midi File Format) is basically IFF without a "FORM MIDI" chunk to tell you the file type (which was dumb, IMHO). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"