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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
Summary: Amiga clipboard can also determine type of clip
Message-ID: <1326@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 91 08:22:41 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.233654.24493@news.iastate.edu> <38@ryptyde.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <38@ryptyde.UUCP>, dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
> 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.

Sorry, you don't seem to know about what you talk. The Amiga clipboard
uses IFF, and the IFF standard includes determining the type of document
you have clipped, be it text or graphics or something else. You find
this information in the header of every IFF file, ILBM for graphics,
FTXT (sp?) for text and so on. So, if this is totally different (opposite)
from what you stated, is the Amiga version still "too free-form" and
the Mac's clipboard "superior"? I doubt it.

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