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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Big pain
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Date: 21 Jul 89 13:00:45 GMT
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In article <2098@hub.UUCP> dz@cornu.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle) writes:
>>cut - like cat, only it would write into the scrap, not stdout
>>...
>This is trivial:
>
>Cut:    prgname > /tmp/scrap (replace scrap)
>...

The obvious problem with this is that /tmp/scrap means NOTHING to
Edit, WriteNow, the Digital Library, or anything else that uses
Cut, Copy, and Paste from the AppKit.

I need to be able to paste into <generic unix command> something I
have just copied from <whiz-bang NeXT application>, and vice-versa.

Try unpacking a shar archive that someone has mailed you sometime.
You have to copy it from Mail, paste it into Edit, save it, close it, then
run sh on it from the Shell, and delete the temporary Edit file.
It would be oh-so-nice to be able to copy it from Mail, and say
"paste | sh" or "sh </dev/scrap".
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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