David,

In Darwin shell 'pbpaste' returns the contents of the clipboard. In the case 
below I copied the JVERSION information to clipboard and that shows up as the 
response.

   shell 'pbpaste'
   JVERSION
Engine: j807/j64/darwin
Release-b: commercial/2019-01-22T16:42:49
Library: 8.07.22
Platform: Darwin 64
Installer: J807 install
InstallPath: /users/bobtherriault/j64-807
Contact: www.jsoftware.com

Cheers, bob

> On Jan 29, 2019, at 9:03 AM, David Mitchell 
> <davidmitch...@honeoyeincolor.biz> wrote:
> 
> Brian,
> 
> Someone will need to do the low-level coding for Darwin to duplicate this.
> 
> Question: does
> 
> shell 'pbpaste'
> 
> Do anything interesting?  I don't have a mac and can't try it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David
> 
> On 1/29/2019 11:40, Brian Schott wrote:
>> David, that looks very promising, but does not quite work for me.
>> 
>>    load'~addons/general/misc/clippaste.ijs'
>>    getcliptext''
>> |domain error: cd
>> |   0=    OpenClipboard 0
>>    JVERSION
>> Engine: j807/j64/darwin
>> Beta-f: commercial/2018-06-28T12:14:57
>> Library: 8.07.16
>> Platform: Darwin 64
>> Installer: J807 install
>> InstallPath: /users/brian/j64-807
>> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
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