For historical reasons, it's a purely Resource Manager resource-based format. Select some text in any application, drag it to the Finder to create a "*.textClipping" file, and then run /Developer/Tools/DeRez on it to examine the resources.
(IIRC, clippings were originally introduced with the classic Mac OS Drag Manager in 1993. The idea was that they'd have the unique property of being viewable directly in the Finder. At the time, this was nice, and text and picture (PICT) clippings were supported by the system, but Apple never followed through with content type plugins for third party content, or even more advanced built-in formats, so application support was likewise limited. Also keep in mind that this was when the Finder was considerably more consistent and usable than it is today, and there wasn't a ridiculous ".textClipping" extension tagged to clippings...)
Chris
On Oct 7, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Sune Foldager wrote:
About text clipping files... anyone happen to have a good link to a place describing the exact file format etc.?
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