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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 1 Jul 91 01:14:34 GMT
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In article <5395@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:

>Pardon me, but I've been using and programming the mac for six years,
>and I have never heard of the .MAC format.  Can anyone tell me what
>it really is?  Is it a MacPaint file?  Is it a PICT file?  EPS?  TIFF?

It has been probably 6 years since I've seen a reference to .MAC files.  They
are just MacPaint files.  I'd never heard that there was that much of a
problem with them other than stripping out the header info.  I'm amazed that
it was even brought up.