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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE HAD BETTER GET WIT THE PROGRAM!! (Was: Re: Commodore Business Machines)
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 23:07:38 GMT
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In article <1991Jun23.202728.18615@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>In article <1991Jun23.194902.21351@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>And Marc is not right all the time either, somethings he just doesn't
>>know what he's talking about (e.g. "The Clipboard is intended for
>>ASCII only transfer.")
>
>   You misread my whole point with that, too.  My point was that the Amiga's
>clipboard does not work nearly as well as the one on the Macintosh.  You 
>could not prove my point wrong, so you jumped on a minor detail.  Typical.

  What do you mean I couldn't prove your point wrong? All I had to do
was look up the docs on the clipboard device and look at the header
files. Besides that, iffparse.library contains a OpenClipboard 
function that allows you to read and write IFF files to the clipboard.
So the statement "The clipboard was originally designed for ASCII" is bunk.
This so-called minor detail proves you do not know as much about the
Amiga as you think you do. You speak with authority, yet you don't
know the facts. Besides me pointing out the clipboard's ability to
save any data, C= employee's responded telling you that the
clipboard can and always did support any arbitrary data.

  If you going to make statements about the Amiga's OS, atleast learn
how it works.

  Besides making statements about the Amiga OS, you also make blanket 
statements about the stock market and marketing in general. Tell me
Marc, how long have you been investing in stock? How many shares of stock
do you own. Reading one of the many wall-street books does not make you
an expert on stock, it makes you an expert on parroting knowledge.

>>
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