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From: allen@granite.dec.com (Allen Akin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: NeXT's Tiff format
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Date: 4 Jan 89 04:53:05 GMT
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Reply-To: allen@decwrl.dec.com (Allen Akin)
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In article <27320@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> David Phillip Oster writes:
>The TIFF format was invented originally for the DEST line of scanners.

	I have a TIFF spec from 1987.  It claims that the format was
	developed by a group of companies, principally Aldus and
	Microsoft.  The format is so baroque and ambiguously specified,
	it should be obvious that Microsoft was involved.  :-)

>If you find ordering nformation for the current standard, please let me
>know. I'd like to update my version 4 stuff.

	You can get a current spec from the Developer Support desk at
	Aldus.  I don't have the phone number at hand, but their
	switchboard operator can forward your call appropriately.
	Aldus is in Seattle (area code 206).

	Allen