

                         CF (ClipFile) version 1.02
                         Written by David N. Junod


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.

-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.

-c		Clear a clipboard unit (set it to 'empty').

-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.


                                 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.

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.

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.


                             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.


                                  Updates
                                      
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.

Changes for version 1.02 (10-Sept-90)

  o  Added the clear clipboard option.

  o  Allows the clipboard to be cleared by reading in an empty file.

  o  Lowered the size of cbuff to five long words.

  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.

