Re: Placing data on the clipbaord

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My point was very simple: He needs a program running on the PC where the
clipboard is. And I wanted to be very clear that it wasn't a limitation of
IBM i, the problem was simply that his program was running on a different
computer, so it couldn't interact with the PC's clipboard.

Why is this such a controversial thing to say? Why am I getting flak for
it?

It's not controversial, and you're not getting flak. If you read
carefully what Buck said, he's implying (1) he has a tendency to be
overly literal, and (2) he tries to counter that tendency, with mixed
success. By "overly literal", I think he just means "more literal
than what the other person meant". He's only "semi-trained" to
recognize this, so in this case, he's not sure whether his initial
reading (which happened to coincide with yours) of the question was
"more literal than OP meant" or "exactly as literal as OP meant".

Now, if we all step back and look again at what the original poster's
EXACT TEXT, we will see that he always uses the phrase "green screen
program". He never says "green screen program running on the i", and
he never says "green screen RPG program". Honestly, it's not a matter
of too literal or not literal enough. "Green screen program" just
isn't informative enough.

John Y.