Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> It's actually RIFF - a multilation of the Amiga IFF format with all the 
>> 4-byte values incorrectly written backwards. (Hence "R" for "reverse".)
> 
>   I think the R stands for Resource.

That's what Microsoft wants you to think. Originally it was "reverse", until 
they realized how few people were familiar with the Amiga formats or something.

It's *exactly* IFF, with the endianness reversed. :-)

Altho it does annoy me when I see it mentioned in the press how "RIFF is an 
extensible format created by Microsoft...."

I do like how PNG took it a step farther and encoded into the chunk names 
whether you need to understand the chunk to parse the file, etc.

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