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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 12 Jun 91 14:36:21 GMT
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In article <5116@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
>ONLY if the application supports that format.. try dumping a MacDraw Circle,
>or some other Structured drawing item into a cheap word processor.  it won't
>work.

Name that word processor.  I can't think of a Mac word processor that doesn't
support pasting in PICTS.  A text editor might have this limitation.

>As i said above... i think you will start seeing less and less use of the Mac
>clipboard.  since system 7 is somewhat multi-tasking...

System 7 is basically as multitasking as MultiFinder was in previous releases.
Since most people, for the next few months anyway, will be using System 7 as
a task-switcher, the clipboard will work just fine.  (If you don't like a
single clipboard, there are replacements.)