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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: clipboard.device question - does it support random writes?
Message-ID: <1866@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 17:45:30 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1866
Posted: Thu Nov 12 17:45:30 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 07:38:05 EST
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Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <986@mitsumi.UUCP> jimm@mitsumi.UUCP (James Mackraz) writes:
>How about writing the data to a file in the RAM disk, and copying the
>result to the clipboard?  I'd like to see the standard expanded so that
>the file name (in RAM:) can be passed, so that ram for just one copy
>of the IFF form of the data need be around at any one moment.  It
>might also be good to let the user specify (via "environment" variable
>or TOOLTYPE) what directory to use for TEMP.

Ah, well, I haven't had time myself to check out just what the clipboard
is and does, so this may seem kinda uninformed, but...

I always pictured a "clipboard" as a fancy name for a subdirectory
(probably really called RAM:clipboard) and an agreement on the format
of stuff in there.  On the MAC there's an icon for the clipboard, and
you can open up it's window and see what's in there.  You could do that
with RAM:clipboard too.  What does it buy you to have the clipboard a seperate
"device" or whatever?  Just a workbench Icon that looks like a clipboard,
so I don't have to go looking in RAM: for it?  I mean if you get Microsoft 
DDA (or whatever the name of that "update your spreadsheet from your dbms on 
the fly protocol is) type functionality, that's great, but if not, why not 
just use RAM:?  Or perhaps a RAM: driver clone that instead of being named 
RAM2: is called CLIP: or something with it's own icon?  Or is that what
it is?

DISCLAIMER
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a rabblerouser and suggest we don't
use it, or suggest it go through a major redesign.  I'm just wondering what 
it does that's fantastic.

Keith Doyle
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