Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!davewt From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Clipboard not really needed (was "The Amiga's Future") Message-ID: <1991Jun12.033447.2686@NCoast.ORG> Date: 12 Jun 91 03:34:47 GMT References: <1991Jun7.064750.5770@news.iastate.edu> Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 18 In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >The ClipBoard was necessary on the Mac before multifinder. Since the Amiga >came with a better multifinder from day one, it really hasn't been needed, >nor really missed. There are a few applications that support the clipboard, >but I haven't had a need to use that support. I'm satisfied to save out a >temporary file in ram disk to do my importing. And if you have any of the easily available "pipe" devices, you don't even have to use a RAM disk. I frequently just do a "save pipe:foobar" in one application and do a "read pipe:foobar" in the other application. I don't see how that is really any less easy, plus it gives you time to do other things like pipe it through a tee, and even more importantly, there is no worry about "losing" what is in the clipboard because you just cut something else. Dave