Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: How 'Bout HyperCard! Summary: CLIP: > SPEAK: Message-ID: <1970@sugar.UUCP> Date: 12 May 88 13:09:56 GMT References: <15372@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <31411@linus.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 16 In the referenced article there was a request that more programs use the clipboard. Be great. Unfortunately the clipboard is a bit of a pain to put into a program. If it was accesible as a device things would be much better. You could use your existing IFF read-write code to immediately use the clip. Commodore: Well, you already did SPEAK:. Personally, I think CLIP: is a bit more important. How about it? Everyone who says "Why not use RAM: files?" (myself included): The clipboard has one nice feature that RAM: files don't have. According to the docs when memory gets low it will automatically save itself in devs:clipboards and free up memory. At least that's what it sounds like to me. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions, these are *values*.