Clipboard from Cygwin?

[Alexander Anderson]

Dear Cygwin list,


    A while back Oliver Nittka sent me the C sourcecode of a Cygwin unix
command to grab the Windows clipboard.  He suggested I  compile  it  and
try  it out.  I would very much prefer not get involved in the headaches
of setting up the ability to actually _compile_ stuff  under  Cygwin  (I
just  want  the  power  of  the Unix tools on Windows, as a command line
user).  I have not been able to get a reply from Nittka recently, he may
be on holiday.


    Could  someone  instead  suggest  where  I  can  download this (or a
similar)  command,  pre-compiled?   Also,  how  does  one  use  Nittka's
'probe'?  Would it be for example,


        $ probe > clipboard.txt ?


With kind regards,


Sandy


P.S.  The source he originally sent:

------------------------------------------------------------- probe.c --
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>

int main() {
    HGLOBAL hglb; 
    LPSTR lpstr; 

    OpenClipboard(0);
    hglb = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT); 
    lpstr = GlobalLock(hglb); 
 
    printf("%s",lpstr);
    GlobalUnlock(hglb); 
    CloseClipboard();
    return(0);
}
-- eof ------------------------------------------------------ probe.c --

-- 
Alexander Anderson

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