ewhac%well.uucp@UDEL.EDU (10/04/88)
Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 3881; Sat, 01 Oct 88 23:10:41 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Sat, 01 Oct 88 23:10:38 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa23553; 1 Oct 88 4:01 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa23334; 1 Oct 88 3:49 EDT From: "Leo L. Schwab" <ewhac@well.uucp> Subject: Re: How satisfied are you with IFF? Message-ID: <7254@well.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 88 11:29:32 GMT Organization: Hole Earth 'Lectronic Loss (or words to that effect) Quote: "This sounds like a horrible TV movie starring Mr. T and Bert Convy." To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU In article <8XEH6zy00VsfM3KmIu@andrew.cmu.edu> mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes: :Of course, a set of clean IFF code would help a lot with those who want to :understand how IFF works. Perhaps the IFF library source code will be made :public? : Personally, I think a lucid programmer interface to a parser will go a lot farther than staring at the parser's innards. Even though our parser is relatively small and extremely concise, I still get lost looking at Stu's code. :If one basic iff.library were created, containing a general :IFF parser, and subsequent separate libraries for ILBM, 8SVX, SMUS, ANIM etc :were created, it would be possible to add new IFF formats merely by writing a :new library containing routines to handle that format and installing it. None :of the other IFF libraries would have to be removed or changed, and it would be :possible for Amiga owners to quickly update their system software without :waiting for a new release of one monolithic library that handles a batch of new :formats. : This is exactly how we're doing it, for precisely the reasons you gave. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: UUCP: pacbell > !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") "Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctor