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In article <1989Mar19.023257.20564@ziebmef.uucp> cks@ziebmef.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
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> So (to turn this into a comp.sys.amiga.tech topic), having listened
>to my tale of woe, does anyone have any suggestions? Does the
>clipboard.device support random seeks after all (the documentation is
>remarkably opaque on this point)? Does anyone have a clever idea about
>how to do this, or nifty code?

The clipboard device does support seeks; I asked the same question
and answered it myself a while back by writing the code and finding
that it works.

What the world needs is a CLIP: handler that would handle a lot of the
details.  It looks easy for simple-minded clipboard use, where you
always do the actual writing.  The feature that lets you post a clip but
not actually copy data unless someone wants it may be more difficult;
I'm not sure how to fit this into a file-system paradigm.

Steve
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