Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!usc!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0 Message-ID: <17152@usc.edu> Date: 11 May 89 01:35:16 GMT References: <17148@usc.edu> <47846@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@usc.edu Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 36 In article <47846@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Vampire writes: | The feature you think you're talking about is what Apple is calling |"Live Cut/Paste" (as opposed to the original "Clipboard Cut/Paste"). This |allows a user to take something like a chart, graphic, spreadsheet, or |word processing document, paste it into another document (even another |document in another application) and have an subsequent changes in the |original automatically show up in the copy that is in the other document. Got it. As far as I know, the ONLY system that allows the above TODAY is the CMU Andrew System. As a Mac user you'll have to wait until 1990-1991 to get it. | I think this is a far cry from what the Amiga is doing right now. |Hell, it STILL doesn't have a standardized clipboard for cut/past, something |Apple had from day one. Correction: Amiga has a clipboard, it's just that |there exist few applications that implement it. Same difference, I can't |cut/paste easily from one doc to another. Interesting. My spreadsheet, database and comm program support both clipboard and AREXX. I can fire up my comm program from the database phonebook, include downloaded data in the spreadsheet or database, while I am editing something else at the same time. | | There's a bunch of other nice features in Mac System 7.0 - if anyone ^^^^^^^^ |really wants to hear 'em, I'll send you (or post) the file I got from |comp.sys.mac. For those of us who keep up with both worlds... You mean THERE WILL BE, right? Shipping to developers in late 1989, means shipping to users in 1990 or 1991. Happy waiting :-) -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=