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* RE: trouble using /dev/clipboard on snapshots
       [not found] <20050727082721.GA2908@efn.org>
@ 2005-07-27 14:30 ` Dave Korn
  2005-07-27 16:26   ` Igor Pechtchanski
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dave Korn @ 2005-07-27 14:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'boo!'

----Original Message----
>From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
>Sent: 27 July 2005 09:27

> I've sometimes been getting errors trying to copy files to the clipboard
> recently:
> 
> $ echo foo>/dev/clipboard
> 
> $ cat /dev/clipboard
> foo
> 
> $ cat /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh.done >/dev/clipboard
> cat: write error: No space left on device

  Well, there you go.  It's out of space.  Either delete some old files, or
install a bigger one.

  Defragging it every once in a while can't hurt, either.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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* RE: trouble using /dev/clipboard on snapshots
  2005-07-27 14:30 ` trouble using /dev/clipboard on snapshots Dave Korn
@ 2005-07-27 16:26   ` Igor Pechtchanski
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Igor Pechtchanski @ 2005-07-27 16:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> ----Original Message----
> >From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
> >Sent: 27 July 2005 09:27
>
> > I've sometimes been getting errors trying to copy files to the clipboard
> > recently:
> >
> > $ echo foo>/dev/clipboard
> >
> > $ cat /dev/clipboard
> > foo
> >
> > $ cat /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh.done >/dev/clipboard
> > cat: write error: No space left on device
>
>   Well, there you go.  It's out of space.  Either delete some old files, or
> install a bigger one.
>
>   Defragging it every once in a while can't hurt, either.

Yeah, stick some more pages on the good ol' clipboard...
	Igor
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