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Re: /dev/clipboard
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: /dev/clipboard
- From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:32:24 -0500
- CC: cygwin-developers at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <985277679.11463.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <3ABA521C.52B04BED@ece.gatech.edu> <004b01c0b315$ae344480$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > Cool. (Can we, as a temporary fix, have cygwin check for
> > 'CF_TEXT|OEMTEXT' and return NULL when a text version of clipboard
> > contents does not exist?)
>
> A full, final fix is in place in the patch I submitted last night.
Great!
> :] The problem that existed before was that you only satisfied the first
> request - I'm allowing sequential reads ||sequential writes, so cat
> (which uses a 1024 bytes block size) works fine.
wonderful! As I said, my implemenation was only *partial* support. It
worked for most of what I wanted; and for the things it couldn't do, I
used putclip and getclip (in the "misc" package at cygutils). But
integrated clipboard support is WAY better than using those two
programs.
--Chuck