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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IFF Library
Message-ID: <9484@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 89 00:16:18 GMT
References: <[259a9bc4:3533]comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.UUCP>
Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <[259a9bc4:3533]comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.UUCP> tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes:
>          "The Universal IFF LIBRARY FOR THE AMIGA"
>           By Christian A. WEBER (Zurich)
>           VERSION 16.1    01-DEC-88
>
>This is a VERY nice setup, has a iff.library file for LIBS:, and loading a
>picture is as easy as OpenIFF("filename") and DecodePic(file,bitmap) and
>so on.

Actually, it isn't all that nice.  It isn't very general (it *certainly*
isn't universal), and every release I have seen has serious bugs.  Some
of the routines just don't work, and some will crash parsing perfectly
legal IFF FORM ILBM's (it seems to not like some legal sizes).

When, oh when, is the long awaited IFFparse.library going to come out, so
we can get rid of all these second rate pretenders?

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University