From:	wrichard AT direct DOT ca (Wade @ Home)
Subject:	Re: /etc/profile ignored; other strangeness
1 Feb 1998 16:35:49 -0800 :
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From: vischne AT ibm DOT net <vischne AT ibm DOT net>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Saturday, January 31, 1998 23:23
Subject: Re: /etc/profile ignored; other strangeness

>I've been complaining about copy and paste operations into cygwin text
>windows, but now I know the truth:  It's a Microsoft problem, not a
>cygnus problem.  If you don't believe me, try to paste something into
>the Dos text window of the ftp.exe that comes with Windows 95. It doesn't
>work.  (Like, copy a file name and paste the file name into a `get '
>command.)


To paste into a DOS command window, you need to change the default
properties for the console.  From the "misc" page on the "properties" sheet
for the DOS prompt, uncheck "allow fast pasting".

I don't know what exactly "fast pasting" is.  I suspect that they decided
to speed up pasting from the clipboard by simply making it not work (don't
even try is much faster than most approaches).

           --- Wade
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Wade Richards    -= mailto:WRichard AT Direct DOT CA =-
"Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity."




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