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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 01 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windowsclipboard integration)
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 01 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windowsclipboard integration)
- From: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: 04 Sep 2001 08:14:06 +1000
- Cc: Cygwin-Xfree <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <001301c13481$3c0a0640$651c440a@BRAMSCHE> <20010903164208.B30211@cygbert.vinschen.de>
On 03 Sep 2001 16:42:08 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:03:40PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > 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.
>
/dev/clipboard does translation - according to the mode the file is
opened in. That seemed to work very well. Harold - did you work
from/with /dev/clipboard?
Rob