Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: to clipboard or not to clipboard Message-ID: <1878@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 07:47:58 EST Article-I.D.: jade.1878 Posted: Wed Dec 10 07:47:58 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 11:29:27 EST Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (Don't have strength to leave) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 23 While at the FAUG meeting last night, I asked a developer if his new product would talk to the clipboard. The answer was "it will handle any file with a DOS name. You can use ram:, why bother with the clipboard?" Seeing that the product in question has doesn't currently - and probably won't in the future - deal with IFF format objects, this makes some sense. Why add code to handle them (as required by the clipboard), plus code to deal with the clipboard.device driver, when the same functionality already exists? I'd been thinking about adding access to the clipboard to mg. But this makes it seem like a bad idea. The general rule would seem to be: "If it deals with IFF format files, make it deal with the clipboard. Otherwise, don't bother." Anyone got any comments? Why should something like emacs use the clipboard, when you can insert any DOS file? Can someone see what good it would do? Thanx,