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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:32:24 -0500
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: /dev/clipboard
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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

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