Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <39EBE95D.1A8540C6@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 01:53:33 -0400 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Smith CC: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Subject: Re: A standard bug-reporting program for cygwin References: <20001016224706 DOT 15272 DOT qmail AT web108 DOT yahoomail DOT com> <20001016195435 DOT C3463 AT cygnus DOT com> <39EBD080 DOT E8F46CBF AT ihug DOT co DOT nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com