[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: cygutils 1.4.16-4 (TEST)

[Mark Geisert]

Hi Takashi,

Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:11:51 -0700
> Mark Geisert wrote:
>> The following test packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>
>> * cygutils-1.4.16-4
>> * cygutils-extra-1.4.16-4
>> * cygutils-x11-1.4.16-4
>>
>> This release fixes a couple of issues reported in -3 and re-implements
>> getclip's capture of Unicode characters from the Windows clipboard using
>> a different method.  This was required because the original approach
>> would not work in 32-bit Cygwin operating on 64-bit Windows.
>>
>> IF YOU USE GETCLIP TO CAPTURE NON-ASCII CHARACTERS FROM THE WINDOWS
>> CLIPBOARD, PLEASE TEST THIS NEWEST GETCLIP TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS FOR YOU.
>> Report any issues to the main Cygwin mailing list.
[...]
>> In about two weeks time this package will be marked current unless bugs
>> are found during this test period.
[...]
> I tested the 1.4.16-4(TEST), and confirmed that cygstart, getclip
> and putclip can be executed on my old machine which does not have
> AVX instruction.

Thanks for testing!

> However, I encountered a problem with putclip.
> Run 'echo AAAAAAAA | putclip' and paste clipboard to notepad.exe.
> Pasted string is garbled in my environment.
> 
> What am I wrong with?

s/am I/are we/ :-\  I can reproduce this.  No idea what's wrong as there were no 
recent changes to putclip.  Let me dig further.  Is this something you've done 
routinely in the past and it was known to work?
Thanks for the report,

..mark