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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:28:15 +0100
From: Thomas Wolff <towo AT towo DOT net>
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2 comments about accessing the Windows clipboard:

* Does the Windows clipboard maintain a timestamp? If so, it would be 
useful to propagate it to /dev/clipboard as its virtual last 
modification time.

* The tools getclip and putclip do not handle non-ASCII character 
properly, while /dev/clipboard does.
   So I'd suggest to replace them with a wrapper:
#! /bin/sh

case "`basename $0`" in
get*)   redir="<";;
put*)   redir=">";;
*)      if [ -t 0 ]
         then    redir="<"
         else    redir=">"
         fi;;
esac

eval cat $redir /dev/clipboard

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Thomas

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