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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IFF format...
Summary: Buy it; it's easier that way.
Message-ID: <10845@well.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 10:08:20 GMT
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <895@fornax.UUCP> mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes:
>Could some kind soul please post or (preferably) send me a full description
>of the IFF format, [ ... ]

	The spec is enormous, and is far too large to post here.  It's also
probably too large to send via mail (the last time I sent it to someone, one
of the intervening postmasters complained about it).

	The IFF spec, however, is available from CATS.  For $20, you get a
quasi-spiral-bound book with the full IFF and ILBM specs, and source
listings to an IFF parser (which is next to useless, since the code is
unreadable).  You also get an Amiga-format disk with the full text of the
spec in machine-readable format, all the IFF sources, and some other example
programs.  The address to send your money to is something very close to:

	CATS Orders
	1200 Wilson Drive
	West Chester, PA   19380

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