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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.213156.6443@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Jun 91 21:31:56 GMT
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Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
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chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:

>trashed.  imagine this scenario.  I'm working in MS word.. and i cut some
>text out to place it somewhere else.  oops, my boss just plopped a top
>priority MacDraw project on my desk, so i switch to MacDraw (leaving MS word
>exactly as it was) and work ... when i'm done i go back to Word and go to
>paste what i had cut... oops.. i get jibberish in my document.. what happened
>is that the clipboard was overwritten by my work in MacDraw.. 

  The clipboard never gets overwritten unless the user actually uses the
Copy, or Cut command in the Edit menu.  

>this sort of
>shared resource then becomes almost useless in a multi-tasking environment...
>UNLESS you are very careful (something average computer users aren't). 

  The clipboard actually came into its own on the Mac when MultiFinder
arrived [so that users could select, cut, switch and paste in less
than 3 seconds].

>>
>>>however, is very sophisticated.  It transfers text and graphics flawlessly
>>>between applications, and nearly all applications support the clipboard.

>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.

  MacDraw generates PICT resources, which as we've mentioned before, is one
of the two types [the other being TEXT], which ALL programs are required to
be able to import.  (If you can find me a Mac word processor which doesn't
support PICT, I'd be extremely surprised).

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