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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:14:19 -0400 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <3F4CD5FC.8000809@cs.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3F4CD5FC.8000809@cs.york.ac.uk> chris wrote: > 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. > > > Unfortunatly under windows it is up to the application to handle things > like | , > , etc. therefore I don't think this could ever be supported. That's not true at all. Windows console programs inherit there io handles just like unix programs. -- 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/