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From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are applications using the Clipboard?
Keywords: IFF, CAT, FTXT, ILBM, Clipboard, Applications.
Message-ID: <542@epicb.com>
Date: 20 Nov 90 00:15:21 GMT
References: <2235@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
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>In <1990Nov16.100909.29735@ida.liu.se>, micja@IDA.LiU.SE (Michael Jansson) writes:
>>THE QUESTION:
>>   IS THERE NO APPLICATIONS THAT SUPPORTS THE CLIPBOARD (PROPERLY)????
>Not many, if any at all.
>Perhaps we will see more use of the clipboard now that 2.x has an
>iffparse.library. Would be nice.
>
>-larry

I agree.  This is one of the things about Amiga software that always 
kinda bugged me.  Between multitasking and Snap, you can get by 
without clipboard support in applications, but... it would be nice.  
Maybe this should be our next "pester the programmers" campaign to 
get them to put in the support for the clipboard.  Right after they 
add the Arexx port. ;^)



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