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From: edgar@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 vs. NeXT Step
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>Now there's an idea I didn't have.  On UNIX systems, pipes can contain
>what character data you want, but typically text information.
>This really is an interesting idea - the concept of piping RAW INFORMATION
>to other programs - almost like message passing but programs not only
>pass a message, they send a book.  Being able to pass information be-
>tween programs and having that information tagged in some way (as to
>mark it as TEXT, PICT, PostScript, etc.) might be a useful concept for

And while you are at it, why not call it "Clipboard"?

Sometimes I use MacroMaker to automatically Cut or Paste for me.
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