[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] Is there an IFF viewer for the PC?

laba-4ic@WEB.berkeley.edu (08/03/90)

Is there an IFF viewer for the PC?  I'd assume this would be a VGA thing...

I know extremely little about these things, having owned a PC clone for
less than two months and not really having had time to learn about them.
(I hate summer school...)

anyway, any information would be most appreciated.

regards,

     byron  (=

lee@chsun1.uchicago.edu (dwight lee) (08/03/90)

laba-4ic@WEB.berkeley.edu writes:

>Is there an IFF viewer for the PC?  I'd assume this would be a VGA thing...

VPIC 2.8 (and probably previous versions) says that it can handle "Deluxe
Paint LBM (IFF)" format files as well as many other formats for pictures.
VPIC is a shareware graphics viewer.  I think "LBM" is the abbreviated
extension for an ILBM (Interleaved Bitmap) file.

I just got VPIC recently and haven't tried it, so your mileage may vary.

IFF files aren't all graphics images, either.  The IFF file format is an
extensible "standard" that can also handle sounds, music, text and other
information.  Too bad it isn't more popular than it is (except on Amiga).

>regards,

>     byron  (=
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whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) (08/04/90)

In article <1990Aug2.230548.16962@agate.berkeley.edu> laba-4ic@WEB.berkeley.edu () writes:
>
>Is there an IFF viewer for the PC?  I'd assume this would be a VGA thing...
>
>I know extremely little about these things, having owned a PC clone for
>less than two months and not really having had time to learn about them.
>(I hate summer school...)
>
>anyway, any information would be most appreciated.
>
>regards,
Here's a tiny IFF viewer -Ask somebody how to uudecode if you don't know.
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rwp@cup.portal.com (Roger William Preisendefer) (08/06/90)

VPIC (available from the Simtel archives and a bunch of bulletin boards) can
view IFF files.

davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (08/07/90)

In article <32488@cup.portal.com> rwp@cup.portal.com (Roger William Preisendefer) writes:
| VPIC (available from the Simtel archives and a bunch of bulletin boards) can
| view IFF files.

  There have been several GIF viewers posted to c.b.i.p recently, and
there are two more in the queue for the next week or so.
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