Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pdn!boake2!jc3b21!fgd3
From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The clipboard
Summary: Of course, you can create temporary files, too.
Keywords: Multiple windows
Message-ID: <760@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 89 05:15:01 GMT
References: <2064@leah.Albany.Edu>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
Lines: 21

In article <2064@leah.Albany.Edu>, wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) writes:
> ...My point was that a small
> simple editor capable of dealing with only one document at a time is fully
> functional on the Amiga if it uses the clipboard device since the Amiga itself
> enables one to open and view multiple documents via the system-provided
> multi-tasking and multi-windowing.

     You really don't need the clipboard device to do that.  I achieve
essentially the same result with Ed by marking a block, writing it to
RAM:block, shifting to the other window, and inserting file RAM:block.  And
Ed is about as stripped-down an editor as I would want to use.  That's one
reason I use it, in fact.  Because it's small I can easily run additional
copies to compare files, cut and paste between files, read several parts of
the same file, etc.

--Fabbian Dufoe
  350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South
  St. Petersburg, Florida  33705
  813-823-2350

UUCP: ...uunet!pdn!jc3b21!fgd3