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- From: s047@SAND.SICS.BU.OZ.AU (Jeremy Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Datatrans problems...
- Message-ID: <9207211328.AA07593@sand.sics.bu.oz.au>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 04:28:59 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- In article <memo.533893@cix.compulink.co.uk> you write:
- >s047@SAND.SICS.BU.OZ.AU (Jeremy Lee) writes:
- >
- >>As an aside, I'm doing this because no other calculator to date lets
- >>you get the results out it in an easy way, and save it to, say, the
- >>current doc or program you are working on, because 9 times out of 10,
- >>that's where you need the data. I wish all similar little utilities
- >>(notepads, reminders, etc.) did the same thing, and allowed you to save
- >>to the cursor as well. That's where the Mac wins out with it's
- >>cut/copy/paste system. Sure the arc has got a functional equivelant,
- >>but no-one ever implements it!!
- >
- >What about Ran Mokady's excellent !PtrCopy? Lets you copy any system
- >text from anywhere to anywhere. Why reinvent the wheel?
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- >Lorcan
-
- Because the entire world isn't just BFont for a start. And, like it or
- not, Acorn did define a standard for how data should be shuffled between
- applications. !PtrCopy is a bodge for applications that didn't follow
- this guideline! And what about when I want to load/save to a file? Do I
- have to open !Edit and !PtrCopy from there? It also means I have to do
- twice as much toing and froing between windows, and the sequence is
- unintuitive to boot.
-
- I'm also going to support !Interface, because I think it's about time
- someone did. And I know how to do hotlinks properly, so I'll be putting
- that in.
-
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- * . Jeremy Lee s047@sand.sics.bu.oz.au Student of Everything *
- * /| "Where the naked spotless intelect is without *
- * /_| center or circumference. Look to the light, *
- * / |rchimedes Leland, look to the light" - Dale Cooper *
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