Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shell 2.08m?? (really supporting the clipboard)
Keywords: Shell cd rollback
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Date: 5 Jan 88 23:29:10 GMT
References: <4VnVCPy00Xc2ods0-W@andrew.cmu.edu> <2135@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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In article <2135@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich) writes:
>... and the mouse text selection wouldn't be THAT bloating for CON:.  Better
>yet, it could be implemented through (gasp) the CLIPBOARD DEVICE!  Why does
>almost nobody support the poor clipboard?  That's one thing I REALLY miss
>from my Mac days, and with IFF, it shouldn't be THAT BAD...  Picture
>pasting into the CLI, or from the CLI into a terminal program, or whatever!

Uh oh, looks like it's time for more examples :-) ! The only program source
I've ever seen that did anything with the clipboard was from Andy Finkel
on an early Fish disk, and though I don't remember it exactly I do remember
thinking that someone would need a very high level of IFF awareness and
perhaps a detailed understanding of how the clipboard worked in order to
put the code to any good use.

The way to get people to use the more complex features of the OS, perhaps to
take the 'long way round' in order to be fully compatible with things like
IFF, system IO (cf. the recent discussions here about that), etc is to make
sure that detailed info (even the very very basic stuff) is readily available
in the form of working programs that perform many of the same functions they
would like to implement. If this calls for periodic rehashing of the same
topics, so be it; it's a lot easier to re-post a program from 2 years back
that few people know about than to write it from scratch.

How about the SnipIt program mentioned by Peter da Silva a while back? Is there
source for that, and is it being posted?

John
-- 
"I hate to be the one to tell you this, Bryce, but there's more to life than
 interactive systems analysis."
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