Re: /dev/clipboard sometimes fails to set CF_UNICODETEXT data.

2022-07-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Takashi Yano! > On Tue, 5 Jul 2022 00:42:50 -0700 > Mark Geisert wrote: >> Hi Takashi, >> >> Takashi Yano wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > In one of my PCs, >> > dd if=/dev/urandom count=10 | xxd > /dev/clipboard >> &g

Re: /dev/clipboard sometimes fails to set CF_UNICODETEXT data.

2022-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 17:40, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2022 00:42:50 -0700 > Mark Geisert wrote: > > Takashi Yano wrote: > > > I also found the patch attached solves the issue. > > > > > > I would appreciate any suggestion. > > > > Would be neet if this patch wasn't needed, but, oh well. My only c

Re: /dev/clipboard sometimes fails to set CF_UNICODETEXT data.

2022-07-05 Thread Takashi Yano
On Tue, 5 Jul 2022 00:42:50 -0700 Mark Geisert wrote: > Hi Takashi, > > Takashi Yano wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In one of my PCs, > > dd if=/dev/urandom count=10 | xxd > /dev/clipboard > > sometimes fails to set CF_UNICODETEXT data. > > As a re

Re: /dev/clipboard sometimes fails to set CF_UNICODETEXT data.

2022-07-05 Thread Mark Geisert
Hi Takashi, Takashi Yano wrote: Hello, In one of my PCs, dd if=/dev/urandom count=10 | xxd > /dev/clipboard sometimes fails to set CF_UNICODETEXT data. As a result, pasting clipboard to notepad does not work. Even in the case, cygnativeformat data is set correctly. So, "cat /dev/c

/dev/clipboard sometimes fails to set CF_UNICODETEXT data.

2022-07-01 Thread Takashi Yano
Hello, In one of my PCs, dd if=/dev/urandom count=10 | xxd > /dev/clipboard sometimes fails to set CF_UNICODETEXT data. As a result, pasting clipboard to notepad does not work. Even in the case, cygnativeformat data is set correctly. So, "cat /dev/clipboard" works. This probl

RE: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-16 Thread cyg Simple
> From: Andrey Repin > > If you know how to do it, may be you can describe the correct way of doing it, > to share the knowledge? > The preferable format would be a FAQ entry. > You are free to add a FAQ entry if you think it is worthy of one. I don't think that it is. cyg Symple -- Problem

Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, cyg Simple! > I would put the output to a /tmp/deleted.lst file and when I'm ready to > paste it into the mail I would cat /tmp/deleted.lst > /dev/clipboard. >> The shell code I posted was a simple test case to show the problem, not > actually >> what I&

RE: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-13 Thread cyg Simple
ot, at least until someone independently encounters > > > this behaviour so it warrants the "F" as well as the "AQ". > > > > > > > I find it strange that someone would be using /dev/clipboard for a > > temporary buffer of data for a batch pr

Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-13 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
iour so it warrants the "F" as well as the "AQ". > > > > I find it strange that someone would be using /dev/clipboard for a temporary > buffer of data for a batch process anyway. Too many opportunities for that > data to be corrupted by other actions of the

RE: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-13 Thread cyg Simple
it strange that someone would be using /dev/clipboard for a temporary buffer of data for a batch process anyway. Too many opportunities for that data to be corrupted by other actions of the user. So in other words, just don't do that; it isn't portable and it is prone to error. The pr

Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-13 Thread Peter Hull
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > I'm running a bunch of Microsoft Office applications which I know do > "helpful" things to the Windows clipboard. It hadn't occured to me that > they may be causing BLODA-like problems in the way they interact with > it. Just to add my exp

Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-13 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
more visible: > >> $ while true; do { i=$(( $i+1 )); echo > /dev/clipboard; for n in {1..10}; > >> do echo $n; done > /dev/clipboard; grep -q 10 /dev/clipboard || { grep 10 > >> /dev/clipboard && echo $i;};}; done; > > > Nope, no way. I'm

Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> And my mail client actively flashing "paste" buttons, when the script is >> working in background. May be that's it. >> >> This is more visible: >> $ while true; do { i=$(( $i+1 )); echo > /dev/clipboard; for n i

Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 13 00:51, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > On Feb 12 13:45, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > >> I've spotted some slightly odd behaviour when writing things from > >> multiple processes to /dev/clipboard. > >> > >> Easie

Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Feb 12 13:45, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> I've spotted some slightly odd behaviour when writing things from >> multiple processes to /dev/clipboard. >> >> Easiest to show this with an example: >> >> for n in {1..10}

Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-12 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 06:03:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 12 13:45, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > I've spotted some slightly odd behaviour when writing things from > > multiple processes to /dev/clipboard. > > > > Easiest to show this with an examp

Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 12 13:45, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > I've spotted some slightly odd behaviour when writing things from > multiple processes to /dev/clipboard. > > Easiest to show this with an example: > > for n in {1..10}; do echo $n; done >/dev/clipboard; cat /dev/clipboard &

Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour

2015-02-12 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
I've spotted some slightly odd behaviour when writing things from multiple processes to /dev/clipboard. Easiest to show this with an example: for n in {1..10}; do echo $n; done >/dev/clipboard; cat /dev/clipboard I expect this to print out the numbers 1–10 to the terminal. Some

Re: [1.7.27] cannot redirect output to /dev/clipboard: "write error: Permission denied"

2014-01-07 Thread Warren Young
On 1/7/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 7 00:29, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: I am getting errors when using bash redirect syntax to write to /dev/clipboard. Reading works ok. # this does not work $ echo "foo bar" >file.txt $ cat file.txt >/dev/clipboard cat: write e

Re: [1.7.27] cannot redirect output to /dev/clipboard: "write error: Permission denied"

2014-01-07 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 7 00:29, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: >> I am getting errors when using bash redirect syntax to write to >> /dev/clipboard. Reading works ok. >> >> # this does not work >> $ echo "foo bar" >

Re: [1.7.27] cannot redirect output to /dev/clipboard: "write error: Permission denied"

2014-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 00:29, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: > I am getting errors when using bash redirect syntax to write to > /dev/clipboard. Reading works ok. > > # this does not work > $ echo "foo bar" >file.txt > > $ cat file.txt >/dev/clipboard > cat: write error: Permis

[1.7.27] cannot redirect output to /dev/clipboard: "write error: Permission denied"

2014-01-06 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
I am getting errors when using bash redirect syntax to write to /dev/clipboard. Reading works ok. # this does not work $ echo "foo bar" >file.txt $ cat file.txt >/dev/clipboard cat: write error: Permission denied # nor this $ ls -la >/dev/clipboard ls: write error: Permission

Re: redirect to /dev/clipboard bug

2013-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 10 12:38, John Bianchi wrote: > I frequently redirect output to the /dev/clipboard for many of my tasks. This > started having strange problems recently: > > 'echo' can re-direct to /dev/clipboard but 'cat' cannot: > > # win8.1 enterprise: > $

Re: /dev/clipboard: No O_TEXT conversion if write() is used

2013-10-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 07:43:37PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >fopen("/dev/clipboard", "wt") sets O_TEXT, fprintf() does LF->CRLF >conversion but write() does not. The latter is IMO a bug. > >fopen("/dev/clipboard", "wb") sets both O_TEX

/dev/clipboard: No O_TEXT conversion if write() is used

2013-10-24 Thread Christian Franke
fopen("/dev/clipboard", "wt") sets O_TEXT, fprintf() does LF->CRLF conversion but write() does not. The latter is IMO a bug. fopen("/dev/clipboard", "wb") sets both O_TEXT and O_BINARY, fwrite() and write() do no conversion. The set_flags() cal

Re: /dev/clipboard corrupted

2012-07-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 29 11:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: > On 29.06.2012 11:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >You know, we just love STCs. Send you small test program here, plus a > >short instruction how you created the clipboard content and how to call > >the testcase to see the problem. > Sure, so here it is. Open cl

Re: /dev/clipboard corrupted

2012-06-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 29.06.2012 11:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 28 20:33, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 28.06.2012 10:20, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Jun 28 00:16, Thomas Wolff wrote: If the clipboard contains large data, the contents retrieved from /dev/clipboard gets corrupted. I compared the following in a

Re: /dev/clipboard corrupted

2012-06-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 28 20:33, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 28.06.2012 10:20, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >On Jun 28 00:16, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>If the clipboard contains large data, the contents retrieved from > >>/dev/clipboard gets corrupted. > >>I compared the foll

Re: /dev/clipboard corrupted

2012-06-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.06.2012 10:20, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Jun 28 00:16, Thomas Wolff wrote: If the clipboard contains large data, the contents retrieved from /dev/clipboard gets corrupted. I compared the following in a few cases: * cat /dev/clipboard or cp /dev/clipboard (which are equal) * mouse-paste

Re: /dev/clipboard corrupted

2012-06-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 28 00:16, Thomas Wolff wrote: > If the clipboard contains large data, the contents retrieved from > /dev/clipboard gets corrupted. > I compared the following in a few cases: > * cat /dev/clipboard or cp /dev/clipboard (which are equal) > * mouse-paste into mintty, read wi

Re: /dev/clipboard corrupted

2012-06-28 Thread Andy Koppe
On 27 June 2012 23:16, Thomas Wolff wrote: > If the clipboard contains large data, the contents retrieved from > /dev/clipboard gets corrupted. > I compared the following in a few cases: > * cat /dev/clipboard or cp /dev/clipboard (which are equal) > * mouse-paste into mintty

/dev/clipboard corrupted

2012-06-27 Thread Thomas Wolff
If the clipboard contains large data, the contents retrieved from /dev/clipboard gets corrupted. I compared the following in a few cases: * cat /dev/clipboard or cp /dev/clipboard (which are equal) * mouse-paste into mintty, read with cat * read /dev/clipboard within application and I found all

Re: Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails

2012-04-17 Thread Michael Vance
Christian Franke t-online.de> writes: > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 09:15:13PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > >> The inheritance of a /dev/clipboard filedesc through fork() fails in > >> 1.7.13. Last working snapshot was 2012-03-30

RE: >> /dev/clipboard

2012-04-13 Thread Stephan Mueller
On Friday, April 13, 2012 7:25 AM, Kenneth Nellis wrote: " Regarding the following... " " $ echo abc > /dev/clipboard " $ echo def >> /dev/clipboard " $ cat /dev/clipboard " def " $ " "...just curious if the ">>" operator

>> /dev/clipboard

2012-04-13 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
Regarding the following... $ echo abc > /dev/clipboard $ echo def >> /dev/clipboard $ cat /dev/clipboard def $ ...just curious if the ">>" operator could/should work as with a regular file. --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FA

Re: Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails

2012-04-08 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, On 2012-04-07 06:18, Charles Wilson wrote: > I'll try to get an update out after Easter (incl. some other pending cygutils > changes). Please consider also http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-05/msg00075.html, rather old but still valid. Regards, Denis Excoffier. P.S. Check typo "ut

Re: Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails

2012-04-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Christian Franke! >>> Confirmed :-) >> Yes, but... >> >> $ uname -vrs >> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.14s(0.260/5/3) 20120406 19:41:34 >> $ echo test1 | cat> /dev/clipboard >> $ cat< /dev/clipboard >> test1 >> $ getclip >

Re: Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails

2012-04-06 Thread Charles Wilson
On 4/6/2012 4:44 PM, Christian Franke wrote: This is unrelated. Apparently getclip is no longer compatible with current cygwin. The cygwin native clipboard format has changed. New format starts with a timestamp which is interpreted as data size by getclip. Ah, I missed that change: 2012-03-26

Re: Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails

2012-04-06 Thread Christian Franke
Nellis, Kenneth wrote: From: Christian Franke Confirmed :-) Yes, but... $ uname -vrs CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.14s(0.260/5/3) 20120406 19:41:34 $ echo test1 | cat> /dev/clipboard $ cat< /dev/clipboard test1 $ getclip [Garbage]test[Garbage] ... Segmentation fault (core dumped) This is unr

RE: Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails

2012-04-06 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Christian Franke > Confirmed :-) Yes, but... $ uname -vrs CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.14s(0.260/5/3) 20120406 19:41:34 $ echo test1 | cat > /dev/clipboard $ cat < /dev/clipboard test1 $ getclip 4▒test1 \bB+inI$x$Objects\Common\3.5\bin\NOTES;C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Common\3.5\

Re: Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails

2012-04-06 Thread Christian Franke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 09:15:13PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: The inheritance of a /dev/clipboard filedesc through fork() fails in 1.7.13. Last working snapshot was 2012-03-30. Should be fixed in the next snapshot. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Confirmed

Re: Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails

2012-04-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 09:15:13PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >The inheritance of a /dev/clipboard filedesc through fork() fails in >1.7.13. Last working snapshot was 2012-03-30. Should be fixed in the next snapshot. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ cgf -- Problem reports:

Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails

2012-04-06 Thread Christian Franke
The inheritance of a /dev/clipboard filedesc through fork() fails in 1.7.13. Last working snapshot was 2012-03-30. Access to /dev/clipboard itself works as expected. Testcase: $ uname -vrs CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.12s(0.260/5/3) 20120330 12:20:36 $ echo test1 | cat > /dev/clipboard $

Re: trouble using /dev/clipboard on snapshots

2005-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:27:21AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >I've sometimes been getting errors trying to copy files to the clipboard >recently: I just made some minor changes to the clipboard handling. I don't know if they will fix your problem or not but there's a new snapshot up t

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-11 Thread Pat Kane
> I just checked in a patch which changes the UINTs to int's as that is > what is actually returned by GetPriorityClipboardFormat. > I assume that will fix this problem. cgf Your patch fixes my problems. Thanks. Pat --- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:03:38PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >Original Message >>From: Corinna Vinschen >>Sent: 04 March 2005 17:57 > >> Dave, >> >> On Mar 4 17:35, Dave Korn wrote: >>> Dunno why the compiler didn't warn. This seems to fix it ok. >>> Attached as well, in case of line wr

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Corinna Vinschen >Sent: 04 March 2005 17:57 > Dave, > > On Mar 4 17:35, Dave Korn wrote: >> Dunno why the compiler didn't warn. This seems to fix it ok. >> Attached as well, in case of line wrap. > > any reason you're not following the usual patch guidelines

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Dave, On Mar 4 17:35, Dave Korn wrote: > Dunno why the compiler didn't warn. This seems to fix it ok. Attached as > well, in case of line wrap. any reason you're not following the usual patch guidelines like, say, sending the patch to cygwin-patches and, that's even more important, adding a

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Korn
> LOL! Dunno why the compiler didn't warn. This seems to fix it ok. Attached as well, in case of line wrap. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/build/src> cat /dev/clipboard [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/build/src> echo $? 0 [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 04 March 2005 17:14 > UINT format; > if ((format = GetPriorityClipboardFormat (formatlist, 2)) <= 0) LOL! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 04 March 2005 17:19 > Original Message >> From: Dave Korn >> Sent: 04 March 2005 17:14 > >>hglb = GetClipboardData (format); > >> >> So, GetClipboardData is failing and returning NULL. > > > ... yet bizarrely, GetLastError ret

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > [Switching to thread 1 (thread 9564.0x24fc)]#0 0x610b3df1 in strlen () > at /usr/src/cygwin-cvs/src/winsup/cygwin/cygserver.h:82 Whoops, this is obviously wrong. Note to self: never p

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 04 March 2005 17:14 > hglb = GetClipboardData (format); > > So, GetClipboardData is failing and returning NULL. ... yet bizarrely, GetLastError returns zero. Oh dear. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: 04 March 2005 16:55 > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Pat Kane wrote: >> To duplicate the problem try: cat /dev/clipboard >> first with a text selection and then after using Windows to copy a >> program (right clic

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Pat Kane wrote: > > > I am having problems using /dev/clipboard. When there is a text > > selection on the Windows clipboard things work as expected, but if > > there is some other type of selection I ge

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Pat Kane wrote: > I am having problems using /dev/clipboard. When there is a text > selection on the Windows clipboard things work as expected, but if > there is some other type of selection I get: "Segmentation fault (core > dumped)" > >

Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

2005-03-04 Thread Pat Kane
I am having problems using /dev/clipboard. When there is a text selection on the Windows clipboard things work as expected, but if there is some other type of selection I get: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" To duplicate the problem try: cat /dev/clipboard first w

Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs

2003-08-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: /dev/clipboard is not a device as far as a normal Windows program is concerned. There is no true handle associated with it. /dev/clipboard will not work with windows apps. You can also use putclip and getclip, two cygwin programs from the cygutils package: ipconfig

Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs

2003-08-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:08:48PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I would be astonished if a non-cygwin program could understand a >>cygwin-specific device like /dev/clipboard. > >I was running this all from bash. Isn't it bash that sets up th

Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs

2003-08-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
chris wrote: Rolf Campbell wrote: $ ipconfig > /dev/clipboard $ ipconfig | cat > /dev/clipboard The first command does *nothing* to the content of the clipboard. The 2nd command does what I expected the first command to do. Unfortunatly under windows it is up to the application to

Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs

2003-08-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:51:20AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: $ ipconfig > /dev/clipboard $ ipconfig | cat > /dev/clipboard The first command does *nothing* to the content of the clipboard. The 2nd command does what I expected the first command to do. And is

Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs

2003-08-27 Thread chris
Rolf Campbell wrote: $ ipconfig > /dev/clipboard $ ipconfig | cat > /dev/clipboard The first command does *nothing* to the content of the clipboard. The 2nd command does what I expected the first command to do. Unfortunatly under windows it is up to the application to handle things

Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs

2003-08-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:51:20AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: >$ ipconfig > /dev/clipboard >$ ipconfig | cat > /dev/clipboard > >The first command does *nothing* to the content of the clipboard. The >2nd command does what I expected the first command to do. And is this a re

1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs

2003-08-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
$ ipconfig > /dev/clipboard $ ipconfig | cat > /dev/clipboard The first command does *nothing* to the content of the clipboard. The 2nd command does what I expected the first command to do. Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Aug 27 11:47:50 2003 Window

Re: /dev/clipboard protection fault on Win98

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:35:12AM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: >I have been forgetting to write in about this. In cannot use /dev/clipboard on Win98; >anything redirected to it causes a fault (Windows error box). > >Anybody else having troubles like this? Not me. cgf -- Unsu

/dev/clipboard protection fault on Win98

2002-02-24 Thread Soren Andersen
Hello, I have been forgetting to write in about this. In cannot use /dev/clipboard on Win98; anything redirected to it causes a fault (Windows error box). My Cygwin is described by (`cygcheck -s', abridged): --- Cygwin Win

Re: cygcheck ... >/dev/clipboard doesn't work

2002-01-18 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Friday 18 Jan 02, Christopher Faylor writes: > /dev/clipboard is a cygwin construction. cygcheck.exe is not a cygwin program, > so it can't really output anything to it. I think this has come up before. I may add it to the FAQ. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: cygcheck ... >/dev/clipboard doesn't work

2002-01-17 Thread Charles Wilson
It's in the cygutils package. Also, this will work (by using a cygwin program as an intermediary): cygcheck | cat > /dev/clipboard --Chuck Stephan Mueller wrote: > Another workaround: > cygcheck -r -s -v | putclip > Assuming you have putclip. I forget which

RE: cygcheck ... >/dev/clipboard doesn't work

2002-01-17 Thread Stephan Mueller
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cygcheck ... >/dev/clipboard doesn't work A google toolbar search of the email archives hasn't turned up an answer to this, so just for information (the workaround is obvious): Like the subject line says, redirecting the output of cygcheck to /dev/clipboard

Re: cygcheck ... >/dev/clipboard doesn't work

2002-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:48:38PM +1100, Jason C. Johnston wrote: >A google toolbar search of the email archives hasn't turned up an answer >to this, so just for information (the workaround is obvious): > >Like the subject line says, redirecting the output of cygcheck to >/d

cygcheck ... >/dev/clipboard doesn't work

2002-01-17 Thread Jason C. Johnston
A google toolbar search of the email archives hasn't turned up an answer to this, so just for information (the workaround is obvious): Like the subject line says, redirecting the output of cygcheck to /dev/clipboard doesn't change the contents of the clipboard, whereas doing it in