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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A brief note on the acceptance of CGM
Summary: from comp.graphics
Keywords: metafiles, translations
Message-ID: <6927@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 88 06:45:12 GMT
References: <2123@homxb.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2123@homxb.UUCP> aemil@homxb.UUCP (A.MILEWSKI) writes:
>
>CGM<->PIC Summary(?)
>
>About a month ago I broadcasted a request for information on
>translating Common Graphics Metafile (cgm) format files
>to UNIX pic format and vice versa. The promised summary of
>responses is easy: No one had a translator; two people asked what cgm was.

In response to the question: ``whats going on with IFF object standards''
STILL the most succinct answer was Chuck McManis': ``The first person
to write a program that uses one sets the standard''



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