Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jeh
From: jeh@elmgate.UUCP (Ed Hanway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: the clipboard
Message-ID: <1143@elmgate.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 89 20:22:47 GMT
References: <24643@louie.udel.EDU>
Sender: jeh@elmgate.UUCP
Reply-To: jeh@elmgate.UUCP (Ed Hanway)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
Lines: 14

In article <24643@louie.udel.EDU> A_HINDS%HVRFORD.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>
>        Yes, its time for my annual *bit**ing about the lack of
>developper support for the clipboard.device.  Why can't I cut
>something out of WordPerfect, and then paste it into CED, or Excellence!, etc?

Good question!  I'm working on a program now which uses clipboard.device, and
I was disappointed to find that I owned only one other program which supported
it.  What's this marvelous program, you ask?  Notepad.  Big deal.

>So, what gives?  It's not that much extra work to put in
>clipboard support?

Not any trouble at all, but you'd never know it from reading the docs.