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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Can we salvage the clipboard?
Message-ID: <90163.104506UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 90 14:45:06 GMT
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I've never tried to mess with the clipboard.  i read the RKM's, and since
it didn't give me any idea why the clipboard even needed to exist (though I
suppose there is one) I just carried on in my own way.  (My program just uses
ram:)

Anyway, my two bit notion for saving the clipboard is that we need a Mac-like
ScrapBook.  (I suppose this is like the clipdevice:nn idea, in a way,
stated from a user environemtn perspective.)

In brief, when I save something to the clipboard, I want to be able to fire
up my scrapbook, and paste the clip into it.  I want to be able to put
multiple clips on one page, and have multiple pages.  It should handle
text, graphics, sound, and so on.

Later, when I need something, I can open the scrapbook and cut or
copy out what I need.

I think if this thing existed, and the source was available, then
programmers would figure out how to be compatible with it.  Do in
in AREXX, or something 8-)

                          lee