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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: CUTBUFFERS too small
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Date: 9 Nov 89 17:21:20 GMT
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The use of CUTBUFFERS is strongly deprecated by the ICCCM.
None of your proposed work-arounds are acceptable.

Please use the selection mechanism instead.  It has full
provision for the transfer of large amounts of data between
applications.  In particular,  applications wanting to
solve the two problems you point out (data available after
client death,  and history available) should use the CLIPBOARD,
and run a clipboard client that maintains a history of previous
clipboard contents.

	David.