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- MagicClip 1.2 (5.8.93) © Franz.Schwarz@mil.ka.sub.org - Freeware
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- MagicClip is a shell utility for Amiga-OS2.04 or above. It provides
- you with the ability to read text from or write text to any clipboard
- unit.
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- The command line argument stencil is
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- "UNIT/K/N,GET/S,FILE/K,PUT/F"
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- The following are the arguments' meanings:
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- UNIT/K/N - the number of the clipboard unit you want to operate on.
- Valid are numbers within the range 0..255. Default is unit 0.
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- GET/S - This switch enables the read operation mode. MagicClip tries
- to gather text information from the selected clipboard unit and
- writes it to the standard output chanel. If the accessed clipbard
- unit is still empty or if no text data was found in it, MagicClip
- returns Dos.warn (5).
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- FILE/K - This argument causes MagicClip to dump the contents of the
- specified file to the selected clipboard unit as text.
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- PUT/F - This argument instructs MagicClip to write the contents of the
- rest of the command line to the selected clipboard unit as text.
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- You may and must always specify exactly one of the GET/S, FILE/K and
- PUT/F arguments, of course.
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- Whenever MagicClip fails due to any reason, it returns Dos.fail (20)
- and reports the failure to stdout.
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- You can control MagicClip's output in the read operation mode with
- two environment variables:
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- MAGICCLIPCHUNKSEP may hold the text that is printed as a chunk separator
- between two printed IFF chunks. Default is a single linefeed (0x0a)
- character.
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- MAGICCLIPENDTXT may hold the text that is printed right after the end
- of all clipboard text. Default is an empty string.
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- Implementation details: MagicClip makes heavily use of iffparse.library.
- The enclosed source code may serve as an example for using
- iffparse.library.
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- Since MagicClip is pure and brief, yet powerful, it's highly
- recommened that you make MagicClip resident.
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- MagicClip is Freeware, i.e., it's freely distributable _and_ the
- author holds the copyright on it. A word about the author's
- liability: it does not exist at all in any way whatsoever. You use
- this software definitively at your own risk.
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- MagicClip written and copyrighted, © 1993 by
- Franz Schwarz, Mühlenstraße 2, D-78591 Durchhausen, Germany.
- uucp: Franz.Schwarz@mil.ka.sub.org; Fido: 2:241/7506.18
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- Suggestions, criticism, flames, money, gold, disks, beer, chocolate,
- nice postcards, e-mails, etc. are welcomed and appreciated!;-)
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- Bye
- Franz 'Blacky' Schwarz
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- -Girlfriend Is Better - Talking Heads-
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