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: <4284@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 5 Oct 89 12:24:19 GMT References: <8909250219.AA13930@jade.berkeley.edu> <899@madnix.UUCP> <156@ra.abo.fi> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 14 In article <156@ra.abo.fi>, rosenber@ra.abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg INF) writes: > It is no harder than writing/reading files, really. It looks different So you can't just use your simple IFF reader/writer routines to do it. And there's no good reason for this. > and it's more flexible. Huh? What can you do with the clipboard you can't do with a file? -- 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