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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
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Posted: Wed Dec 10 07:47:58 1986
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Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (Don't have strength to leave) Meyer)
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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,