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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <70@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 09:39:18 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

">What would happen if say you ran a 20 line BBS and were using your word
>processor and something on the BBS used the clipboard at the same time as you
>tried to use it between your word processor and paint program? Problem?"

The clipboard is a user interface device, to be used by humans only! 
No program would use the clipboard to exchange or copy data between
applications or otherwise. The clipboard is used only when the user
gives the magic Copy, Cut, or Paste.