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<td><font face="Times">Reads the <i>dataType</i> representation of the current contents of the pasteboard.&nbsp; <i>dataType</i> should be one of the types returned by the <b>types</b> method.&nbsp; The data is read by setting the pointer referred to by <i>theData</i> to the address of the data, and setting the integer referred to by <i>numBytes</i> to the length of the data in bytes.</font>

<p><font face="Times">If the data is successfully read, this method returns <b>self</b>.&