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From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Looking for general IFF floating point and coordinate point formats
Message-ID: <2243@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 02:16:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 02:16:03 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Nov-87 21:45:40 EST
References: <561@radio.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
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In article <561@radio.toronto.edu> cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
>[Reposted due to news problems; I'm sorry if you see this twice.]
>
> We're working on an application that needs to save floating point data
>in an IFF file, and we want to make the floating point format as
>general as possible. Does such a standard way of representing floating
>point values in IFF files already exist? Does anyone have any ideas
>about what it should be?

This is the itme to suffer the expenses and get on BIX and GET HEARD. This
very topic is being thrashed out in the amiga.dev conference iff topic.
(j amiga.dev/iff) If you do not get heard you may find yourself with a
format that nobody else will support. And you'll find yourself off in
the never never land of having no access to other program's data files.
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