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 Lines: 17 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 -- ron (rminnich@udel.edu)