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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 01:53:33 -0400
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
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To: Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: A standard bug-reporting program for cygwin
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Ross Smith wrote:
> 
> Chris Faylor wrote:
> >
> > I was hoping that this might be a project that someone here would like to
> > take on.
> >
> > Anyone interested?
> 
> Yes, I'll give it a try. A couple of suggestions (that I'll include if
> nobody points out why they're dumb ideas):
> 
> -- When they fill in the "what program?" field, it should check the
> program name(s) supplied and include any details it can find out about
> the executable (whether it exists, full path, size, date, output of
> --version, are there any more of the same name later in the $PATH, etc).
> 
> -- As well as writing the output to a file, also save it to the
> clipboard, so the user can just open a mail window and paste.

Feel free to 
  (a) incorporate code from putclip.c
(http://cygutils.netpedia.net/misc.tar.gz) to handle the 'save to
clipboard' function, or 

  (b) add write support to the readonly /dev/clipboard that was recently
added to cygwin (then you could just write to the 'file' /dev/clipboard
as well as a 'real' file.

--Chuck

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