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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IFF archive proposal
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Date: 21 Jan 88 06:57:05 GMT
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If you are going to create an Amiga specific archiver, go all the
way... support icons.  Have an "AICN"  (Amiga ICoN) chunk.  This
would be a DiskObject structure loaded via the:

		GetDiskObject(name);

Call.  The icons would be put back with:

		PutDiskObject(name,DiskObject);



Other comments:

1> "Oh, no!  Not another incompatible archive format!"
2> Too complex.  The same thing could be done with *much* simpler
   data structures.  Simplify.  Combine all the needed info for each
   file into one or two chunks.
   Forget the multiple pass-compression... Lempel-Ziv already takes care
   of that (to any degree worth bothering about).
   Just include the "number of bits" of compression for Lempel-Ziv
   encoded files. 
3> Make it easy to just click on a bunch of icons/drawers and 
   compress/combine them.

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