ANNOUNCE: /dev/clipboard read & write support

[Robert Collins]

> -----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


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