Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!purdue!gatech!udel!rminnich
From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Replacing IFF
Message-ID: <2451@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 9 May 88 17:21:35 GMT
References: <5699@well.UUCP> <9131@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5819@well.UUCP> <5896@well.UUCP> <1948@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Organization: University of Delaware
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Keywords: IPC, standard, network
Summary: I like to bang two bricks into my head.

In article <1948@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I *like* the IFF standard. I don't know why people are turned off by it.
>The only thing that's obscure about IFF is the recursive stuff is a pain,
>but very few programs use the recursive stuff.
Me too. I have used it for some things, and never had a whole lot 
of trouble. But, more important, it is a standard that real for-sale
programs use, and we amigans have too few of those. 
   Which makes me wonder: why are we talking about replacing it?
Shall we just go out any buy macs, and kill the amiga right now,
rather than taking to slow-death 'oh lets pick ANOTHER standard'
route? 
   This seems crazy.
   BTW, i like Matt's resources, but only as an IFF component.
RSRC, anyone?
ron
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ron (rminnich@udel.edu)