THE UNIVERSAL IFF LIBRARY FOR THE AMIGA

                         VERSION 22.1, 02-Jun-92

                                   BY

                           CHRISTIAN A. WEBER
                              BRUGGERWEG 2
                             CH-8037 ZURICH
                              SWITZERLAND

                  INTERNET: weber@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
        (E-MAIL: cbmehq!cbmswi!mighty!chris@cbmvax.commodore.com)


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ITSELF.  UPDATES WILL BE RELEASED BY THE AUTHOR.  HOWEVER, YOU MAY  CHANGE
THE SOURCE CODES OR USE THEM IN YOUR OWN PROGRAMS.


WHAT IS THE IFF LIBRARY ?
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The iff.library is an easy to  use  Amiga  library  which  gives  you  some
powerful routines to deal with IFF files, especially ILBM files (pictures),
ANIM files (animations) and 8SVX files (digitized sounds).
It was fully written in Assembler and is  only  3.2 KBytes  long.  The  de-
compression routines are the fastest I've ever written :-)
To use iff.library, copy it to the 'LIBS:' directory of your boot partition
or Workbench disk.
Since the iff.library is a standard Amiga library,  it can be used from any
programming language such as C, C++, Modula-2, Assembler, Pascal, ARexx and
many more.

I started writing this library in September 1987, and now it is really bug-
free (I hope) and it can handle any IFF files I know, including DPaint pic-
tures with stencil,  HAM and halfbrite pictures, ANIM files (with a trick),
SHAM files, SoundFX instruments,  and all other IFF files which do not con-
tain nested chunks.

If you have questions or suggestions, don't hesitate to contact me!