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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
Message-ID: <38@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 91 00:24:06 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

"  I think the whole question here is how strictly enforced these
"standards" are.  You're right in that there's no reason why the
clipboard couldn't be better than the Mac's.  But Marc's also right
in saying that if applications don't support it, then the technical
superiority is wasted."

This is one instance in which the Mac's clipboard is superior to the Amiga's.
Specific data types are contained in the clipboard (TEXT, PICT, etc), a list
which grows as the need arises. An application in which a Paste command was
given can check to see what data type the clipboard contains because this
information is provided by the OS. The Amiga's clipboard is too free-form,
or so recent posts would have me believe.