Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Can we salvage the clipboard?
Message-ID: <5878@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 11 Jun 90 10:50:26 GMT
References: <8886@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <8886@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
> An suggestions for salvaging the clipboard???

A "clipfile:" device. Writing to "clipfile:0" would put something in the
clipboard, and reading it would read it back out again. For dynamic clips,
a "clippipe:N" device could be used, which would be basically a "pipe:" that
went through the clipboard. This would make it trivial for programs to use
clips. Right now it is (as you noted) not quite intuitive.
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