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Re: Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:48:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage
- References: <5203A1A3 dot 30200 at cs dot utoronto dot ca> <20130808153250 dot GN16868 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Aug 8 17:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 8 09:48, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > (no, that's not a typo in the subject line)
> >
> > 64-bit install, bash inside mintty, all latest packages with the
> > cygwin1.dll snapshot shown below...
> >
> > # <<< --- begin STC --->>>
> > $ uname -a
> > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ryan-laptop-v02 1.7.23s(0.268/5/3) 20130729 19:11:42
> > x86_64 Cygwin
> >
> > $ echo "Reading" > /dev/clipboard
> >
> > # hit [shift]+[insert] to paste
> > # (hopefully 8 characters is not "too long" to paste into a TTY)
> > # then hit ^D to finish
> > $ cat > tmp.txt
> >
> > $ cat tmp.txt
> > Rg
> > eRaedaidnign
> > g
>
> The only idea I have is this. The clipboard data is stored as
> CF_UNICODETEXT and as the Cygwin-private CYGWIN_NATIVE_CLIPBOARD format.
> How's shift-insert implemented in mintty? If it reads the CF_UNICODETEXT
> part and sends it to the pty unchanged, that could explain
> this behaviour.
The pty already gets 16 chars. And pasting the text into CMD or, FWIW,
any Windows console window works as expected. So this looks like a
mintty bug right now.
Corinna
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