> But the original terminal was also already using a side channel. What? The serial link was the only way for the terminal to talk to the Big Machine. There ne

> But the original terminal was also already using a side channel. What? The serial link was the only way for the terminal to talk to the Big Machine. There never was a "side channel", in fact things like control flow are mixed in-band; that's why some programs get confused about C-s and C-q. > The terminal emulator provides a way of manipulating the clipboard but that is just convenience. That's different from the TUI application accessing the system clipboard. You need to use pbcopy or xclip, that's non-portable, won't work over SSH, relies on those external tools being installed, etc. > I would actually like to have a network wide clipboard system. There are solution for that but I haven’t yet found any that isn’t too unwieldy. Try any two Apple devices signed in to the same iCloud account. It works OOB, zero setup, 100% reliable. It's called Continuity: <https://support.apple.com/en-us/108046 https://support.apple.com/en-us/108046> Yeah, proprietary, non-portable, etc. Choose your trade-offs.