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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: clipboard enhancement request-for-discussion
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:58:15 +1000
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I'm finding more and more often, that being able to redirect things to
/dev/clipboard isn't quite enough.

ie emailing patchs really needs a file attachment, not inline text.

I'm considering the following change therefore:

create a new device /dev/clipfile which when written to places a "file"
(specifically a CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR format object) on the clipboard,
consisting of the contents written to /dev/clipfile.

The upshot of that is that
---
cvs diff -up foo > /dev/clipfile
[switch to some application that understands file copy and paste - ie
outlook]
shift-insert
---

would work.

/dev/clipfile would also be able to be used to read the contents of a
copied file from the clipboard (without the metadata for obvious
reasons).

Thoughts?

Rob



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