Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: /dev/clipboard read & write support MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:17:44 +1000 Message-ID: Thread-Topic: ANNOUNCE: /dev/clipboard read & write support Thread-Index: AcC1su+H6FkDX49HTD6PLeJmz6eMRwAANBeQ From: "Robert Collins" To: "Charles S. Wilson" Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id AAA27073 > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles S. Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu] > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:17 PM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: /dev/clipboard read & write support > > > Robert Collins wrote: > > > > The latest snapshot (21st march) includes support for > /dev/clipboard. > > cat bigtextfile > /dev/clipboard > cat /dev/clipboard > foo > diff bigtextfile foo > > shows no differences, even when bigtextfile is over 64k long. > (I happen > to have binary mounts, and CYGWIN=binmode). > > --Chuck > Excellent. It's good to get confirmation (Knowing it works here is just the first step :]). FWIW I've tested with 2Mb+ files, with the same result. After 4Mb performance will degrade (according to MS Documentation it's due to the old-style Global* heap management routines on Win32.... but the clipboard requires the use of those routines :-/ ) Rob -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple