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#! rnews 2702 bsd Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!Leiden.NL.net!obelix.fvdpol.inter.nl.net!not-for-mail From: frank@obelix.fvdpol.inter.nl.net (Frank van de Pol) Subject: Re: Portable database library for Linux/FreeBSD X-Nntp-Posting-Host: bd99-15.breda.nl.net Message-ID: <10737@831219406> Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.unix.bsd.misc Sender: news@inter.NL.net (News at newsldn) Reply-To: F.K.W.van.de.Pol@inter.NL.net Organization: Frank's internet service X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <4lk4cj$jko@sidhe.memra.com> <4ls5v0$764@news.interpath.net> <vm2wx312y9f.fsf@growl.cs.utexas.edu> <4m2pdt$3ed@web.nmti.com> <4m4fdj$n9j@news.interpath.net> Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 21:21:42 GMT Lines: 39 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:15228 gnu.misc.discuss:24750 comp.windows.x.apps:11300 comp.unix.bsd.misc:905 Kevin P. Neal (kpneal@interpath.com) wrote: > In article <4m2pdt$3ed@web.nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com says... > > > >In article <vm2wx312y9f.fsf@growl.cs.utexas.edu>, > >Ajit George <gajit@cs.utexas.edu> wrote: > >> Microsoft's Multimedia Extensions for Windows 3.0 (now isn't that a > >> dated title) use the RIFF file format to store multimedia data such as > >> .WAV files, .AVI files, etc. RIFF appears to be very similar to or a > >> sub/superset of IFF. > > > >Typical. Something becomes a standard so Microsoft puts out slightly > >incompatible version and ships it with everything. So much for trying > >to develop good standards by consensus. Why don't we just send Bill > >all our money now and have done with it? > It'd be pretty hard to be a subset of IFF. > I put up specs off my home page, feel free to check it. > I'd like to see EA IFF 85 become the new standard file format for Free Unix. > -- > XCOMM http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/ / kevinneal@bix.com I thought the MS RIFF format was a 'clone' of the EA IFF format. The only major thing they changed was (apart from different chunk codes:) the byte order: from motorola to intel style. Frank. -- ========================----------------> #define NAME "Frank van de Pol" #define ADDRESS "mgr. Nelislaan 10" #define CITY "4741 AB Hoeven" #define COUNTRY "The Netherlands" #define EMAIL "F.K.W.van.de.Pol@inter.NL.net The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill