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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 01 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboard integration)
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:51:16PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
>Corinna,
>
>xwinclip currently only handles text selections, not files. That is to our
>advantage, because we can probably figure out the source and destination
>text formats and convert accordingly. I'm going to look at how Emacs does
>it for some ideas.
>
>However, files will be a little trickier, because we'll have to look through
>the Cygwin mounts, searching for the destination drive, checking the mount
>mode, then deciding whether we need to convert the text format.
>
>I believe it can all be done to a satisfactory level, but it will take some
>time to get it right.
Just opening the file will set the correct binmode/textmode. Then you can use
getmode() to figure out what line ending to use.
cgf