[ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 01 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windowsclipboard integration)

[Robert Collins]

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