info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (08/20/84)
From: Rick McGeer (on an h19-u) <mcgeer%ucbchip@Berkeley> 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.