Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!rutgers!mcnc!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future)) Message-ID: <1991Jun10.040143.25276@ncsu.edu> Date: 10 Jun 91 04:01:43 GMT References: <1991Jun8.044840.1404@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun8.074935.781@neon.Stanford.EDU> <38@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun9.084438.8745@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 29 dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes: >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 [...] and rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: >The Amiga method is way more flexible. Using IFF it's possible >(if developers would implement it) to cut and paste TEXT, Graphics, >SOUND, Animation segments, brushes, Music arrangements, and even >3-d objects! This is because the Amiga has one file format for all >of these, IFF. An application would simply need to check the header So both clipboards are more or less the same: different data types, ability to check on types, etc. Don't see much to argue over here. Tangent: calling IFF "one file format" is misleading. It's really more like many different file formats using a similar style and wrapper. It doesn't make much difference what format is used in a clipboard anyway, as long as it's both described and used. > It's a pity no one hardly supported the clipboard.device, I recall someone mentioning that the first version didn't work quite right, which led to developers unfortunately ignoring it later on. Something about losing the first line of text or something relatively minor like that. Anyone know more about this? Folklore or truth? :-) thx! - kevin