Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:56:08 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs Message-ID: <20030827155608.GA23637@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:51:20AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: >$ ipconfig > /dev/clipboard >$ ipconfig | cat > /dev/clipboard > >The first command does *nothing* to the content of the clipboard. The >2nd command does what I expected the first command to do. And is this a regression? I would be astonished if a non-cygwin program could understand a cygwin-specific device like /dev/clipboard. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/