clipboard
<operating system> A temporary memory area, used to transfer information
within a document being edited or between documents or between programs. The
fundamental operations are "cut" which moves data from a document to the
clipboard, "copy" which copies it to the clipboard, and "paste" which inserts
the clipboard contents into the current document in place of the current
selection.
Different Graphical User Interfaces vary in how they handle the different types
of data which a user might want to transfer via the clipboard, some (e.g. the X
Window System) support only plain text, others (e.g. NEXTSTEP) support
arbitrarily typed data such as images.
(1996-08-23)
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