Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!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: <4282@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 5 Oct 89 12:14:32 GMT References: <4272@sugar.hackercorp.com> <4998@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 20 In article <4998@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>, nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock) writes: > In article <4272@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > * 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. > I'll bite. How is this any different from using RAM in the first place? When you fill memory, the clipboard will overflow to a file in CLIP: called CLIP:0 (for the default clipboard), CLIP:1, etc. So you can clip things without having to worry about running out of RAM, just by putting CLIP: on magnetic media. Secondly, a CLIPBOARD: handler for the clipboard device would allow you to easily interoperate with programs that already use the clipboard. -- 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