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
