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- CF (ClipFile) version 1.02
- Written by David N. Junod
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- This little utility provides a number of usefull functions for accessing the
- clipboard.
-
-
- -h Display the help message.
-
- -u <unit> Clipboard unit, ranging from 0 to 255.
-
- -r <file> Place the contents of the named file into the clipboard.
- Converts ASCII to FTXT form.
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- -w <file> Place the contents of the clipboard into the named file.
-
- -f Don't convert FTXT form to ASCII, when writing from the
- clipboard to a file.
-
- -q Display the contents type (IFF form type) or 'empty' if the
- clipboard is empty.
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- -c Clear a clipboard unit (set it to 'empty').
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- -n <file> Watch the named file and place it into the clipboard
- whenever it changes. Must send a break signal to shutdown
- the process. This options uses the file notification
- feature of AmigaOS 2.0.
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-
- Test Files
-
- The archive also contains a number of files usefull for testing the
- clipboard routines of applications that support it.
-
- test.ilbm Contains a nice IFF ILBM (brush) to be loaded into the
- clipboard to see if applications even test to see if the
- contents are FTXT when they require it.
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- test.ftxt Contains a nice IFF FTXT form with an AUTH and NAME chunk
- before the CHRS chunk. Usefull for testing to see if the
- application seeks to the CHRS chunk.
-
- test.ftxt.no Contains an IFF FTXT form with an AUTH and NAME chunk, but
- no CHRS chunk.
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- test.ftxt.odd Contains an IFF FTXT form with an odd length AUTH and NAME
- chunk (with proper padding) before the CHRS chunk. Make
- sure the application seeks properly.
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- Other Useful Tools
-
- Another extremely usefull tool for clipboard testing is the SIFT command
- that comes with the iffparse.library example suite (DevCon '90 disks).
- Just type in 'SIFT -c' for the utility to run an IFF check on the contents
- of the clipboard.
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-
- Updates
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- Changes for version 1.01 (8-Sept-90)
-
- o Unit range checking changed from 0-9 to 0-255 (thought I'd seen
- somewhere that only ten clipboard units were allowed).
-
- o Seeks correctly through odd length (but still padded) chunks.
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- Changes for version 1.02 (10-Sept-90)
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- o Added the clear clipboard option.
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- o Allows the clipboard to be cleared by reading in an empty file.
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- o Lowered the size of cbuff to five long words.
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- o Added ClipID, Author and Project information to Buffer structure (of
- the new fields, only ClipID is being maintained).
-
- o Added ClipID to the query option.
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