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.