Re: A standard package for config files is needed

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 01:00:02 GMT, Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> > Sounds like a good idea, but why all the sound and fury?  This is what
> > the IFF (Interchange File Format) was designed to do.  Requiring simple
> 
> Huh? IFF used to be a image file format for Amigas.

No. IFF is Interchange File Format. It's the basis of lots of stuff,
including PNG image files (altho PNG changed it around a little bit in
interesting and good ways, but used the same concepts) and I think TIFF uses
the same concepts as well.

Most all the file formats on the Amiga were IFF, including sound, movies,
images, word processor docs, 3D vector graphics, raytracer inputs, etc.
There were programs to (for example) extract the images out of word
processor documents in spite of the program not knowing the word processor
format.

The Amiga image formats were specifically IFF/ILBM - Interchange File
Format, InterLaced BitMap.
 
> besides it looks 100 times worse to hand-edit than XML.

Yes. It's a binary format with lots of length counts in it. I can't imagine
hand-editting it.

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