From: Jeremy Hetzler <jeremyhetzler@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: getclip and cygutils and cygcheck
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOh4nmk2_9CV_X9HrxJ=mLJ0dJ889Yn53zrrYuciaFN7Ft1_9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130613095556.GA21638@calimero.vinschen.de>
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.
Please please keep these utilities unless there is a fully functional
replacement.
Thanks,
Jeremy Hetzler
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-13 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-12 14:48 Nellis, Kenneth
2013-06-12 15:22 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2013-06-12 15:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-12 17:57 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-12 19:53 ` Thomas Wolff
2013-06-13 9:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-13 18:13 ` Jeremy Hetzler [this message]
2013-06-14 9:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-15 3:15 ` Jeremy Hetzler
2013-06-15 3:36 ` Jeremy Hetzler
2013-06-15 17:45 ` Arthur Tu
2013-06-15 19:36 ` Thomas Wolff
2013-06-17 10:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-17 13:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-19 17:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-19 17:35 ` Jeremy Hetzler
2013-06-19 17:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-19 17:11 ` Ken Jackson
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