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- ScanIFF does a job much like IFFCheck, except that it does not have the
- double-checking and cross-checking of that program.
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- So why ScanIFF? To give programmers skeleton coding on which they
- can hang their own IFF coding requirements. My own IFF objectives,
- when I wrote this code, was to dig out INS1 instrument requirements
- from complex music files. Your IFF needs may be quite different.
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- The assembly code here will search to any reasonable IFF depth,
- recognizing the standard "wrapper" chunks within which other chunks
- may be found.
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- The Dos SEEK operation is used, which makes for a fast program run.
- But this means, of course, that you can't use this program with, say,
- a file being sent through a pipe.
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- There's little error checking in the program; I didn't want to
- klooge up a coding template with detail. Control-C will abort you
- from any depth, of course.
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