From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27346 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2013 18:13:52 -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 27329 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jun 2013 18:13:51 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_PASS,TW_YG autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mail-qa0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-qa0-f41.google.com) (209.85.216.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:13:50 +0000 Received: by mail-qa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id f14so1266247qak.0 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:13:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.229.170.131 with SMTP id d3mr133047qcz.92.1371147228784; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:13:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.86.197 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:13:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130613095556.GA21638@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A7021C57FB3@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A7021C58055@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <51B8D19B.7080400@towo.net> <20130613095556.GA21638@calimero.vinschen.de> From: Jeremy Hetzler Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:13:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: getclip and cygutils and cygcheck To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00282.txt.bz2 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 -- 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