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- From: jsev@midland.co.nz (John Severinsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What I'd like to see happen
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 06:33:54 GMT
- Organization: Midland Internet Limited, Network Services
- Message-ID: <1165.6634T931T1094@midland.co.nz>
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- On 20-Feb-96 18:46:44 (Msg ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960219224244.2109C-
- 100000@washington>), Kevin Lowe wrote:
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- >What I Want.
- >There needs to be a drastic upturn in the number of Datatypes. I mean,
- >we've got quite a few Sound and Picture types hanging about, what with
- >the AU, GIF, JPEG, IFF, PNG, WAV, and such. And there are at least a
- >trickle of Text types (but far too few), but a large hole can be seen.
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- I agree. I would like to see the datatypes standard increased so that
- software programmers used them for the loading of data. That way, data could
- be seamlesly transferred from 1 programme to another. The same goes for the
- clipboard. Cut and Paste data from 1 proggy to another using datatypes would
- be great. I don't know if there are any limitations to the standard though.
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- <tsb>Thor 2.22, 01-Mar-96 15:24:51
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