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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1457.0. "OOOOOooooo! He makes me Sooooo AAaangry!!!" by VIDEO::LEIBOW (Michael Leibow) Sat Jun 04 1988 07:14

    On page B-52 of the Amiga Exec manual, there is supposed to be an
    example description of an IFF FTXT CHRS file.
    
    The text looks like this:
    
    --START OF MISPRINT:
    
    FTXT Example
    ------------
    
    Here is a box diagram for a simple example: "The quick brown fox
    jumped Four score and seven," written in a proportional serif font
    named "Roman."
    
    	+-----------------------------------+
    	|'FORM'         24070               |
    	+-----------------------------------+
    	|'ILBM'                             |
    	+-----------------------------------+
    	| +-------------------------------+ |
    	| | 'BMHD'      20                | | 
    	| | 320, 200, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, ...  | |
        | | ------------------------------+ |
    	| | 'CMAP'      21                | |
    	| | 0, 0, 0; 32, 0, 0; 64,0,0; .. | |
    	| +-------------------------------+ |
    	| +-------------------------------+ |
    	| |'BODY'               24000     | |
        | |0, 0, 0, ...                   | |
        | +-------------------------------+ |
    	+-----------------------------------+
    
    -- END OF MISPRINT
    
    The --MISPRINT words are mine.  Everything inbetween is typed exactly
    the same way that it appears in the RKM.
    
    Misprints like these really, really, really make me angry.
    
    Don't they have editors?  The interlace bit mapped graphic IFF stuff
    is described in a later section.  How could an ILBM example get
    into the FTXT section?  If the guys who wrote the FTXT section would
    have proofread it at least ONE time, they would have caught this
    blatant error.
    
    I Now, Flame, Set on fire, Pressure-cook, Steve Shaw (Electronic
    Arts), Jerry Morrison (Electronic Arts), and Bob Burns
    (Commodore-Amiga).  How could you jerks publish this?
    
    	No Flame Off...
    
    	I will never cool down from this disgusting crap...
    
    	--Mike
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