Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!quads.uchicago.edu!jcav From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john cavallino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <1991Jun21.164930.14460@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 21 Jun 91 16:49:30 GMT References: <1991Jun18.214856.7301@milton.u.washington.edu> <70@ryptyde.UUCP> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 33 In article rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >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... If you are sitting at the BBS host machine, there is nothing to prevent you (the User) from cutting and pasting from the BBS to some other program. If you are using a terminal emulator to log into a remote system, there is nothing to prevent you from cutting and pasting information on the screen. What the original poster was asking about was what would happen if someone logged onto the BBS tried to access the host machine's Clipboard. This can't happen, so there is no conflict. -- John Cavallino | EMail: jcav@midway.uchicago.edu University of Chicago Hospitals | USMail: 5841 S. Maryland Ave, Box 145 Office of Facilities Management | Chicago, IL 60637 B0 f++ c+ g+ k s+(+) e+ h- pv (qv) | Telephone: 312-702-6900