How put text file contents into the clipboard?

Can anyone tell me how to put the contents of a file (including new lines) into the clipboard of OS4?

We have the "clip" command, but that only seems to allow putting a single line of text into the clipboard.

There is a "clip" command (from 2001) on Aminet, which does what I want, but it mysteriously crashes when I try to call it from my own program (but not from the Shell) so I think it must be buggy.

We have a "CLIPS:" assignment, but copying stuff to it doesn't seem to do anything?

From the AWeb source using IIFParse.library



void Clipcopy(UBYTE *text,long length)
{
struct IFFHandle *iff;
UBYTE *p;
for(p=text;p<text+length;p++)
{ if(*p==0xa0) *p=' ';
}
if(iff=AllocIFF())
{ if(iff->iff_Stream=(ULONG)OpenClipboard(PRIMARY_CLIP))
{ InitIFFasClip(iff);
if(!OpenIFF(iff,IFFF_WRITE))
{ if(PushChunk(iff,ID_FTXT,ID_FORM,IFFSIZE_UNKNOWN)) goto err;
if(PushChunk(iff,ID_FTXT,ID_CHRS,length)) goto err;
if(WriteChunkBytes(iff,text,length)!=length) goto err;
if(PopChunk(iff)) goto err;
if(PopChunk(iff)) goto err;

err:
CloseIFF(iff);
}
CloseClipboard((struct ClipboardHandle *)iff->iff_Stream);
}
FreeIFF(iff);
}
}

BTW The assingment CLIPS: is literaly an assignment so copying to it will copy a file to ram:clipboard

@ChrisH

Easiest way would be to use WriteClipVector() from textclip.library:
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@salass00, broadblues
So there is really no easy solution that non-programmers can use?

It seems that I can read from TEXTCLIP: but not write to it (using C:Copy).

I thought that was what you were asking for, an easy solution for a programmer, since you said that:
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@salass00
Well, an easy solution for non-programers would also be a (very!) easy solution for programmers

I'm just surprised what I want to do isn't actually possible, without using a compiled programming language.

put the output stream to textclip like:


type ram:test.txt > textclip:

@salass00

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Out of curiosity: as I haven't found textclip.library anywhere in the system, where is it located actually? Is it part of some other OS component?

@Goos
That worked, thanks!

@ChrisH
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Well in OS3.9, there was not even a Clip command One step at a time

@trixie
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Looks like it might be generated in memory by textclip-handler:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26599983/textclip_library.jpg

Quote:Hey, brilliant! Another little known Amiga gem revealed. Thanks!

Best regards,

Niels