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 the it's >i/o handles before fo

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 handle things

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 this a r

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 like | , > , e

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 regression? I would be

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 Windows 2000 Profe