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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: <1867@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 17:51:58 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1867
Posted: Thu Nov 12 17:51:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 07:38:31 EST
References: <562@radio.toronto.edu> <1964@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <1964@amiga.amiga.UUCP> kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns) writes:
>The clipboard.device tries to keep things in ram, but if ram runs low
>it puts the clip in the file DEVS:clipboards/0 (which is the intended
>place to exchange data: other units besides 0 are available, though)

AHA!  Part of my question has been answered.  The clipboard is kind of
a virtual RAM: disk.  Hm..  Could be interesting to have a virtual
RAM: handler.  Uh oh, you guys are in trouble now, just wait until
I publish the book "weird unsupported things nobody ever figured you'd
want to do with the clipboard.device".  :-)

Keith Doyle
#  {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd  Contel Business Systems 213-323-8170