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From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: IFF format...
Keywords: Descriptions, please?
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Date: 22 Feb 89 10:58:22 GMT
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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Could some kind soul please post or (preferably) send me a full description
of the IFF format, or at least references to where to obtain a complete and
clear description?  I'm a Mac II hacker, and I'd like to write an app to
convert back and for between Mac and Amiga pictures.  If possible, I'd
like:
	--description of IFF format for graphics, including any common
compression schemes.
	--descriptions of the working of the HAM mode, and its interactions
with IFF.
	--descriptions of other common picture formats, if any, for the
Amiga (aside from GIF, which I more or less know, but if you have good
GIF docs, I'd appreciate those too.)

Format for descriptions is (decreasing order of preference):
	--Pascal, C, or other language source code to read IFF files.
(I believe there are a few things like this floating around, but I can't
read ZOO files.)
	--description of the iff format
	--references to iff descriptions.

Please send your replies as standard text, not compress.  e-mail if
possible, (follow the return path), I'll try to read comp.sys.amiga for
the next week or so, but may miss followups.

Thanks for the help!

Ken McDonald
{...!ubc-cs!mcdonald@fornax.uucp}--but if you can, just follow the return
path.