Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 01 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboard integration)

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

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:03:40PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > >
> > > Links:
> > >
> > > I just posted Test 01 to the xwinclip development page:
> > > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/xwinclip/
> > >
> > > xwinclip binary and source code releases are available via the
> > > sources.redhat.com ftp mirror network
> > > (http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html) in the
> > > pub/cygwin/xfree/devel/xwinclip/ directory.  You may wish to note the
> > > desired filename in the links below, then download from your
> > > closest mirror (http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html).
> > >
> > > xwinclip binary, direct link:
> > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/xwinclip/xwinclip-Test01.exe.bz2 (9 KB)
> > >
> > > Server source, direct link:
> > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/xwinclip/xwinclip-20010902-1252.tar.bz2 (5
> > > KB)
> > >
> > >
> > > Changes:
> > >
> > > 1) Copy text selections from Windows into Cygwin/XFree86 when
> > > requested.
> > >
> > > 2) Copy text selections from Cygwin/XFree86 into Windows when
> > > requested.
> > >
> One point I think has to be fixed: The unix newlines should be converted to dos
> newlines
> because some editors (I have tested notepad and ultraedit on w2k) can't handle
> unix linefeeds.

Gack! That would hit people which are using Cygwin tools on binmode
mounts. I disagree to that suggestion. At least notepad is not an editor
but just a text control w/o noticeable functionality. I don't know
ultraedit, though.

Corinna

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