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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GIF viewers
Summary: Too many standards = no standards
Keywords: IFF
Message-ID: <250@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 89 22:43:46 GMT
References: <1170@osf.OSF.ORG> <9083@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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In article <9083@xanth.cs.odu.edu> scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) writes:
>MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT WITH THE ST GRAPHICS IS THAT I CAN GET ANYTHING I WANT
>TO MY ST... EVEN THOUGH THE METHOD MIGHT BE RIDICULOUS (SEE ABOVE)...
>BUT I CANT GET PICS FROM MY ST BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM!

It's unfortunate that Electronic Arts did not try hard enough to make IFF
(Interchange File Format) be the dominant standard on the Atari ST.  If
they had, there would be no need to convert from one format to another.
Imagine, all programs that read picture files being able to read pictures
from ANY program that creates a picture file with the same resolution.
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