Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 08:15:43 -0400
From: Rene Grothmann <grothm@ku-eichstaett.de>
Subject: Re: FF[]


>Let say that my application handles all of the FF[4]
>properties but not any of the removed FF[3] properties.
>When my application reads an FF[3] file it will find
>unknown properties and preserve it. Most likely the
>preserved property is an old FF[3] property. Can I
>include FF[4] even when some of the properties may
>be FF[3]?

Since there are private properties, my understanding is that your
application promises to use the FF[4] properties, as they are supposed to be
used. It can use the old M and L tags and save them, but may not expect
others to be able to read them.

Rene.
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