Re: terminals and urls and copying

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From: Luke A. Kanies
Subject: Re: terminals and urls and copying
Date: 19:40 on 24 Mar 2004
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Peter da Silva wrote:

> There are no sane copy-paste models. There are just different kinds of pain.

I was intrigued by BeOS's later model, which provided a protocol for the
copiee and copier to agree on a format for pasting based on MIME
(text/plain, text/html, etc.).  I never really had problems with it, but
it was a later addition and thus didn't get beaten on much.

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