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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE HAD BETTER GET WIT THE PROGRAM!! (Was: Re: Commodore Business Machines)
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Date: 24 Jun 91 08:11:42 GMT
References: <7471@vela.acs.oakland.edu$ <4190@ux.acs.umn.edu>,<1991Jun23.194902.21351@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun23.202728.18615@news.iastate.edu>
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Quoted from <1991Jun23.202728.18615@news.iastate.edu> by taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett):
> In article <1991Jun23.194902.21351@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

> >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 

    Wrong. It does work as well as the Mac's, if not better, but
    applications don't use it. And thank heavens they don't, otherwise
    there would have been less incentive to develop things like ARexx,
    which are a step beyond the low-intensity cut/paste operations of
    a clipboard.

>  / Marc Barrett  -MB- | BITNET:   XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET        /   
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