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Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:56:23 +0000, Fergus <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> wrote:
>> Include -clipboard as an option for XWin.
>> e.g.
>>    run XWin -clipboard -nolisten local -multiwindow 2>nul &
>> and then selected text in xterm is automatically copied to the clipboard 
>> for onward pasting.
>> Fergus
> 
> Thanks for that. I find X very confusing and mainly just want a simple
> xterm to run mutt, slrn and unix like-codes.

Fancy giving MinTTY a try? It is (or at least attempts to be) compatible 
with xterm, but it's a native Win32 program, i.e. X is not required.

http://code.google.com/p/mintty

Andy

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