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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: IDEA->Macro prog w/joystick movements
- References: <38139@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Message-ID: <paulk.2y91@terapin.com>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 17:50:48 PST
- Organization: BBS
- Lines: 17
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- > > AmigaDos 2.0 has a shell text-clipping feature that only works
- > > with other Dos windows.
-
- > Actually, as long as you are running the background program
- > 'conclip', which is supplied with 2.04 and is started by default in
- > the startup-sequence, the shell copy/paste uses the Amiga system
- > clipboard. Other programs that can use the clipboard (VLT,
- > MicroEmacs, Baby!, etc) can get and put the text you clipped.
-
- And with the program ClipFile, you can swap any text between the
- clipboard and ram disk files. I used this, for instance, to hack up
- right-amiga-C and right-amiga-V keystrokes in Uedit.
-
- But the other day I wanted to paste something from the text editor
- into a string gadget... couldn't figure another way to get
- nonstandard IBM characters into it.
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