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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Fuzzy Pixmap 0.86: now with Amiga IFF support
Keywords: IFF ILBM, GIF, SUN, PBM, PCX, PostScript, Diablo
Message-ID: <3308@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 6 Mar 89 12:45:27 GMT
References: <4416@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <4416@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, mlm@nl.cs.cmu.edu (Michael L. Mauldin) writes:
>     IFF Amiga interleaved bitmaps (ILBM)

Actually, this is an Electronic Arts standard adopted by Commodore for the
Amiga. According to the docs it's used by Electronic Arts products on other
computers as well. Other IFF (interchange file format) standards include
musical scores, sampled sounds, and formatted text.
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