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On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:18:21AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >/dev/clipboard is a block/stream device... but it's pretty much >guaranteed that there will be dos/unix mode issues: > >unix mode cygwin - the text when copied to (say) notepad will still be >unix text. Likewise text copied from notepad to cygwin may have extra >characters. > >dos mode cygwin - shouldn't have any surprises. > >Does the filehandler take care of that for me, or does the clipboard >device need to be aware in some fashion? Ideally the clipboard gets the >file data already translated :] If you've implemented your own read method then the dos/unix line mode stuff won't happen, unless you've implemented it, IIRC. Theoretically, devices should be controlled by the CYGWIN=binmode setting. It would be kind of cool to allow mounting of the device to control the mode but I think this only works for disk files. >The catch is that when writing the CF_TEXT format for windows >applications to get from cygwin it should _always_ be dos mode IMO. >(Cygwin apps will get the native format, which should be in whatever >file mode the user is using). > >Pointers to routines are hereby solicted :] I'd just trace things from _read() and see how it works. Or, write a simple program to check it. cgf
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