Date   : Mon, 08 Jan 1996 12:14:33 GMT
From   : Patrick.McTiernan@... (Patrick McTiernan x8738)
Subject: Snapshot formats

If you want some kind of ASCII tagging, could I recommend a "chunky" format?

i.e. each block starts with 
NAME:

and then has the length to skip (can also be in ASCII) if the chunk is
not understood by a particular reader. Acorn's REPLAY format does this sort
of thing, but with offsets into the binary.

Each of these chunks needs to be followed by a carriage-return or line-feed
(or both) to help those viewing it in a text mode. I you don't want it to
be easy to read, then this is all rather silly of course.