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nwc1 clipboard uses binary format

nwc1 clipboard uses binary format, not plain text

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Reply #1
What is your question?

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Reply #2
Wasn't a question, but was a valuable point. The NWC2 clipboard format is designed to be human-readable and editable as plain text. This allows it to be manipulated by any programming language that can esily manipulate plain text - and such a feature is indeed an add-on to NWC2. But the NWC1 clipboard format was not designed for that purpose (and, of course, is unlikely to be changed!).

user111 makes good observations, from time to time.

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Reply #3
But this one falls into the golden oldies category.

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Reply #4
The point, I believe, is that even though NWC2 can open NWC files, clipboard from NWC1 cannot be sent by e-mail as plain text to a remote user of NWC2. Not everybody has web access other than plain-text e-mail.

But that's the way it is.

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Reply #5
All the more reason to upgrade, methinks.