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Subject: beware of the clipboard
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Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 18:57:27 EDT
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From: Rick McGeer (on an h19-u) 
	I cut out ~2 - 3 pages of a Macwrite document today, because I was
approaching the memory limit of a Macwrite document (and why can't Macwrite
swap stuff in, as emacs does?  No MMU, or is there another reason?).
Anyhow, I intended to paste the stuff into another document, then print the
two together.  Surprise; after I'd quit the first document, then re-opened
Macwrite, the clipboard was empty.  So I conclude that there is a memory
limit (undocumented) on the size of the clipboard, that the clipboard dumps
stuff when that size is exceeded,  and that is does so without warning.
Apple, fix this.  Everybody else, beware of copying large amounts of stuff
via the clipboard.

						Rick.