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From: goldman@Apple.COM (Phil Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: the desk scrap under multifinder
Message-ID: <325@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 88 22:04:18 GMT
References: <1881@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1881@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum) writes:
> [Details of using scrap manager for IPC]
>
>Please do NOT send me pontifications on how I am misusing the scrap manager,
>and how everything will be wiped out by an unplanned call to ZeroScrap().
>When Apple installs some reasonable interprocess communication, I call
>ditch this tom foolery...

While it is true that Apple does not officially enforse an IPC mechanism yet,
there are several ways to do it.  The one mentioned above is a very poor
one, though, as it could ruin the user's notion of what data is in the
clipboard.  A safer (and easier) way would be to use shared memory in the
system heap.

-Phil Goldman
Apple Computer