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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:54:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: George <d1945 AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Accessing the Windows clipboard
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, George wrote:

> Aside from the 'putclip' and 'getclip' utilities, or making use of
> '/dev/clipboard', I'm wondering if there are other approaches.

You can also use pure Win32 API calls.

> Accessing bitmaps, for example, doesn't quite work as expected.

Yep.  For now clipboard access in Cygwin is text-only.
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
	Igor
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