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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:16:26 +0200
From: Thomas Wolff <towo AT towo DOT net>
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Subject: /dev/clipboard corrupted
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If the clipboard contains large data, the contents retrieved from 
/dev/clipboard gets corrupted.
I compared the following in a few cases:
* cat /dev/clipboard or cp /dev/clipboard (which are equal)
* mouse-paste into mintty, read with cat
* read /dev/clipboard within application

and I found all three results to be different, the correct one sometimes 
being cat /dev/clipboard but not always.
In today's case, the differences occured at byte 10240 and 65536 
respectively, thus 10K-1 bytes or 64K-1 bytes being equal.
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Thomas

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