> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Mahlerwein [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 10:01 AM > To: Charles Howse > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: xclip > > >----- Original Message ---- > > >From: Thomas Adam <[email protected]> > >To: Charles Howse <[email protected]> > >Cc: Thomas Adam <[email protected]>; FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd- > [email protected]> > >Sent: Fri, January 1, 2010 10:51:25 AM > >Subject: Re: xclip > > > >On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:48:28AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > > > >> Hi Thomas, thanks for the reply. > >> This is kinda gnarly. I'm using VMware Player on Windows 7, FreeBSD > is the > >> guest OS. > >> I have a script that outputs some text that I would like in the > clipboard > >> that I can paste into an email in Windows Outlook. > > > >Ah right. You'll find that won't work at all. > > > >-- Thomas Adam > > With VMware Workstation, I do something similar by launching the VM but > ignoring the console of it. Use PuTTY to connect to the virtual > machine via its IP address. From PuTTY, anything on screen is > trivially copied to the host's windows clipboard by selecting it with > your mouse. > > How may that work for you?
I actually got it done by using PuTTY to connect to my FreeBSD server, run the scripts in Bash there, and copy the output to the clipboard. 13 lines per script, vs. **HUNDREDS OF LINES** in vbs or vba!! :-)) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
