On Jun 13 14:13, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: > 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.
What's that size? I'm not aware of any size restriction in the current /dev/clipboard code. Well, there's an allocation when writing to the clipboard, but it's only restricted by the size of the largest available memory block in the process VM, in theory. > Please please keep these utilities unless there is a fully functional > replacement. Apart from converting getclip/putclip to a script, the situation would be *much* better, if somebody would take a heart and add UNICODE and multibyte capability to getclip/putclip... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
