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<p><font face="Times">If <b>nil</b> is returned, the application should put up a panel informing the user that it was unable to carry out the paste operation.&nbsp; It shouldn't attempt to use the pointer referred to by <i>theData</i>, as it won't be valid.</font>

<p><font face="Times">The memory for the data that this method provides must eventually be freed by the caller using <b>deallocatePasteboardData:length:</b>;&nbsp; you should <i>not</i> attempt to free the returned memory using <b>vm_d