From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28528 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2013 09:16:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28498 invoked by uid 89); 14 Jun 2013 09:15:56 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_YG autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:15:56 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id C19B2520284; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:15:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:16:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: getclip and cygutils and cygcheck Message-ID: <20130614091553.GC4087@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A7021C57FB3@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A7021C58055@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <51B8D19B.7080400@towo.net> <20130613095556.GA21638@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00290.txt.bz2 On Jun 13 14:13, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen > < ... > wrote: > > On Jun 12 21:52, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >> Am 12.06.2013 17:21, schrieb Nellis, Kenneth: > >> >... > >> >where is getclip? > >> Whereever it actually is, shouldn't it be deprecated or removed > >> since it does not handle non-ASCII characters? > >> I think I already suggested a replacement once before which was a > >> simple shell script wrapper to /dev/clipboard. > > > > Good point. > > > > > > Corinna > > > > I use getclip/putclip every day. They are the only way to reliably > move large (multi-megabyte) amounts of data from Windows programs in > and out of the clipboard. "cat /dev/clipboard" fails with "bad > address" over a certain size. What's that size? I'm not aware of any size restriction in the current /dev/clipboard code. Well, there's an allocation when writing to the clipboard, but it's only restricted by the size of the largest available memory block in the process VM, in theory. > Please please keep these utilities unless there is a fully functional > replacement. Apart from converting getclip/putclip to a script, the situation would be *much* better, if somebody would take a heart and add UNICODE and multibyte capability to getclip/putclip... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple