clipboard
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.
(1996-08-23)