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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Big pain
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Date: 20 Jul 89 13:55:03 GMT
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In article <13066@netnews.upenn.edu> farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber) writes:
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>there has got to be a way to print a cut piece of a file with out opening
>the Editor , pasting it and then Print it (I hope there is).

I *think* you are supposed to be able to use the "User" menu for this;
see the Edit documentation in the DL.  I've never been able to get it
to work, but I haven't tried hard.

On a related issue; it sure would be nice if there were a unix device
called "scrap", that handled the scrap.  Then, I could say:

% cat foo bar >/dev/scrap

or

% enscript </dev/scrap

Failing that, it would be ok if there were unix commands called cut, copy,
paste, and clear, with the following behaviors:

cut - like cat, only it would write into the scrap, not stdout
copy - like cat, only it would write to BOTH the scrap and stdout
paste - would produce the contents of the scrap on stdout
clear - empty the scrap

I think the utility of these things is obvious.  I don't know about how
easy or difficult they would be to write; though I suspect they wouldn't
be tough.  Unfortunately, I don't have time to try right at the moment.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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