	Welcome to the Super Dooper Incredible New Marvelous Wonderful
			Good Nifty IFF Parser library.

	This is an Alpha release.  What does that mean?  It means that this
is our first public release of the library, and as such, we're fishing for
comments and suggestions on this library, and how it may be improved.  Note
that, because this is an Alpha release, we reserve the right to change
everything out from under your feet when the next release comes out.
However, we'll try our best not to do that to you.

	Since this is an Alpha release, and the very first one at that,
we've decided to prohibit the use of this library in commercial products,
unless you receive written authorization from us.  The reason we've done
this is we anticipate there will be many changes between this release and
the 'final' release.  These changes will happen in both the header files
(iff.h and iff.i) and the .library itself.  At the moment, because there
are only the two of us using the library, we cannot anticipate just how
far-reaching subsequent changes will be.  We think we got it right, but we
won't know until you've played with it and sent us your comments.

	So, to prevent as much hair-pulling on the part of you and your
customers as possible, we've elected to prohibit commercial use.  However,
as future releases become available, and as we get more sure of ourselves
and the finality of the library, this restriction will be gleefully
removed.

	For the similar reasons, and also so that we don't lock ourselves
in too badly when it comes time to rev the thing, we ask that you not give
the library or the associated files to third parties without first clearing
it with us.  By maintaining control at this critical early stage, we hope
to have enough freedom to make the necessary changes to give the library a
high polish.  Please help us in this regard, and don't give it out unless
you ask us first.

	Source code to the library, as a rule, is not available.  However,
if you have a demonstrable need to examine the source, we can work
something out.

	It is our hope that commercial and PD software developers alike
will adopt this library as the standard library of routines to parse IFF
files on the Amiga.  We strongly encourage you to play with it, and also
ask for your comments and suggestions for improvement, which may be sent to
either of the addresses below.

	We hope you like it.

Stuart H. Ferguson		Parser design and implementation.  He did
123 James Ave.			most of the hard work.
Redwood City, CA   94062
well!shf@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU

Leo L. Schwab			Lots of head-nodding, judge of "Zenness",
23 Summerhill Court		bug swatting, assembly includes.
Terra Linda, CA   94903-3873
well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU

	Also with profuse thanks to:

Jim Mackraz			Another judge of Zenness.
Bob "Kodiak" Burns		IFF Guru.
Reichart Von Wolfsheild		Moral support and mounds of patience.
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What this distribution includes:

stubs (dir):
	Source code to "stub" routines to permit C client programs to call
	the library.  Also:
	iffparse.lib		; Manx 3.4b-compatible link library,
				; small code and data.  (3.6 users will have
				; to recompile.  Sorry.)

fd (dir)
	iffparse_lib.fd		; The function definition file.

docs (dir)
	iffparse.doc		; "AutoDocs"
	iffparse.man		; Detailed decription of the library.

libs (dir)
	iffparse.library	; The shared library.

include (dir)
	iffparse.h		; C header file.
	iffparse.i		; ASM header file.

libtools (dir):
	David Joiner's 'GlueMaker' program.  This was used to create the
	library stub vectors found in the 'stubs' directory.

Distribution			; This file.
Makefile			; Makefile for examples.
README				; Brief overview of the library

sift#(.c)			; Example programs and their associated
simple#(.c)			;  source files.
tiff#(.c)
tiff2#(.c)
tree#(.c)
wiff#(.c)
wiff2#(.c)
