Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Clipboard support, and why it hasn't happened. Message-ID: <4272@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 4 Oct 89 00:25:23 GMT References: <8909250219.AA13930@jade.berkeley.edu> <899@madnix.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 17 In article , portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: > This is not intended to be a flame against the Clipboard. I would > like to see Clipboard support in all programs myself. Though if the > Clipboard is to be truly successful, the following things must happen: * It must be no harder to use the clipboard than it is to use a file. The easiest way to do this is to provide a CLIPBOARD: handler. That way you could open CLIPBOARD:0, write stuff, and close it with no more difficulty than you have now creating a file in RAM:. For 1.4. Pretty please? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U` ``Back off dude! I'm a topologist!'' -- Andrew Molitor