dev/info - MacBinary II Specs

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Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/dev/info/ic-news-1.hqx

A text file about the up and coming Ic 1.01U also featuring a brief sample of
the author introducing the product.

Tom Barbalet.

Ic News

Issue One

Contents

o---Editorial
o---Syntaxing And Compiling Structures Altered
o---Ic, BACE and Kratis
o---The Three Types Of 'Polymorphism




Here's some info for the info-mac archives, specifically
info about development in dynamic languages for the mac...

1) I recently explored around the Information/Development and
Development/Information folders on sumex. To my chagrin, the
entry for lisp I posted has somehow disappeared. I'm enclosing
another copy below in the hopes of correcting that.

2) It seems that MacGambit 2.0 (also described below)
has disappeared. It's available by anonymous ftp from
trex.iro.umontreal.ca - would you be interested in snarfing
it to the info-mac archives?

3) The file smalltalk-for-mac.txt should be updated to
include info about the very cool new smalltalk, SmalltalkAgents.
It's available from Quasar Knowledge Systems, Bethesda, MD



Hi,

The specs for MB2 seem to have disappeared from the various sites, so here
it is, reposted. I didn't write this, I have no connection with it, I'm
just posting it.
Peter.
These are the new changes to the MacBinary Standard, as generally agreed
upon in the MacBinary II Conference 6/21/87, and as changed in the followup
conference 6/28/87. Revised 7/24/87 to reflect suggestions and clarifications
that came later, and to include all necessary information needed from the
original MacBinary standard document to implement MacBinary II.

The new standard will be very similar to the original MacBinary standard as
described in [MacBinary Standard]. (Reading the original standard is
recommended for a full understanding of implementation and philosophy
behind the MacBinary I and II formats.) The binary format consists of a