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From: ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are applications using the Clipboard?
Keywords: IFF, CAT, FTXT, ILBM, Clipboard, Applications.
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Date: 20 Nov 90 20:47:10 GMT
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In article <2250@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>Barring differentiation by content alone, perhaps a suggestion of using
>a single value at the beginning to specify IFF or ASCII would have done
>it.

Has anyone ever noticed the mention of the TEXT form type (or was that a
chunk type) in the IFF '85 spec?  It's just a sentence or two, and it
seems to be saying that you can just put regular ASCII text in it.  This
could be much easier than a full blown FTXT parser.  Grab your RKM's and
take a look.  How about it?

>-larry

-hans
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