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From: neil@amiga.UUCP (Neil Katin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga visit
Message-ID: <531@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jan-86 20:12:28 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 12 20:12:28 1986
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In article <465@well.UUCP> crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper) writes:
>   Oh yes,  a lot of requests have been pouring in about what the .info
>file format is.   Amiga will NOT release this information because the
>format is subject to change and it would cause problems with future
>development.  Amiga recommends that we use the GetIcon, and PutIcon
>functions (Hmmm!! don't recall seeing those routines).
>
>John Draper
>Toastmaster for the Programmers Network
>"The place where we all live and learn"
>
>UUCP: ihnp4!ptsfa!well!crunch
> BIX: crunch
>delphi: CRUNCH
>  MCI: crunch


I wanted to correct this portion of John's posting: the "most" recommended
routines to read and write ".info" files are:

    GetDiskObject( fileName )
    PutDiskObject( fileName, diskObject )
    FreeDiskObject( diskObject ) 

They have the simplest interface and do the most cleaning up after
themselves.

	Neil Katin
	Commodore-Amiga, Inc.