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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Call for new IFF format
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Date: 11 Feb 88 01:47:34 GMT
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Keywords: IFF text

In article <2886@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich) writes:
>In article <8802100718.AA23834@jade.berkeley.edu> FVEST@AUDUCVAX.BITNET writes:
>>
>>A word processing IFF file standard read/write could be added to new
>>releases of existing software to maintain upward and cross-system
>>compatibility.  New software would hopefully follow the standard.
>
>I believe there is already at least one IFF text format -- I think it's called
>FORM (I'm not real sure about this -- just seem to remember seeing it sometime)

Incorrect. The Word processor IFF FORM (in IFF most things are FORMs or Chunks)
is called WORD and it is used in Prowrite by New Horizon Software.  It is fully
described in the September/October AmigaMail, on BIX and on the latest IFF 
disk available from Commodore CATS.  If you are interested in proposing new
IFF formats, I advise you to contact Carolyn Scheppner of CATS, which handles
the IFF registration, etc..

-- Marco