Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 18:16:27 GMT References: <654.24493@news.iastate.edu> > <4222.tnews@ <1991Jun18.214856.7301@milton.u.washington.edu><70@ryptyde.UUCP> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 26 dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes: >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. > Yeah! Its a users only type of thing.... I wouldn't mind a way to cut something from a text editor and send it to my terminal though....Or cut something from the BBS and send it to the text editor or from text editor to the BBS... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) It was Atari that advertised in 1985 - "AMERICA, WE BUILT IT FOR YOU, the Atari 520ST" - Too bad they didn't mention they were built in their Taiwan factory.