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From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Supporting the clipboard (Re: Jerry declares the 2000 as 'the most improved computer')
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Date: 30 Mar 89 15:17:19 GMT
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In article <gYAE33y00hke00oGlE@cs.cmu.edu> mjw@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Witbrock) writes:
>> *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga.tech: R.. Chris Siebenmann@ziebmef
>
>>  There's no IFF routines that will write to the clipboard, and it's
>> not at all obvious how to write them.
>>
>>  You see, the clipboard requires you to put IFF data into it. 

I meant to ask this before.

Where in the manuals does it say that the clipboard _requires_ you
put IFF data into it?  I'd like to read more, and I just don't recall
stumbling across this rule.

-scott