Re: getclip and cygutils and cygcheck

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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

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