Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How 'Bout HyperCard!
Summary: Clipboards should be IFF.
Message-ID: <1973@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 88 11:01:09 GMT
References: <15372@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <31411@linus.UUCP> <956@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <956@sandino.quintus.UUCP>, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
> When I select (or copy/cut) a spreadsheet, or
> animation, or picture, or chunk of a wysiwyg document, it needs
> to carry along with it information about how to manipulate it, or AT
> LEAST how to display it.

IFF. Some products, at least, already use IFF for clipboards. It's a natural,
particularly since any graphics program you do is likely to support IFF
anyway. An object-oriented system would be nice, but it's way too late
to do that to clipboards.
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