From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-03 08:54:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.columbus.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CFB913E.F3B09E29@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed References: <3CFAC0AD.8040504@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:54:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1023119654 66.75.151.160 (Mon, 03 Jun 2002 08:54:14 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 08:54:14 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25259 Date: 2002-06-03T15:54:14+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** My brain needs a "back" button so I can remember where I left my coffee mug.