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Re: Cut and paste problem with cygwin 1.3.1


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:41:40PM -0700, Victor M. Esquivel wrote:
> >I know cygwin v1.3.1 just came out, but I thought I'd give it a try.
> >
> >I installed from scratch with the latest cygwin, mingw, and w32api.  I
> >noticed right away that I can no longer cut and paste more than 4 lines
> >of data from a Windoze text file to a bash session.
> >
> >To confirm this, I re-installed from scratch (again), but I used cygwin
> >v1.1.8, mingw v20010130-1, and w32api v20010130-1.  This combination
> >worked as expected.  I could cut and paste lots of lines (>24) between
> >a Windoze text file and a bash session.
> 
> I just tried this and had zero problems pasting many lines of text into
> a "cat" run from bash.
> 
> I tried both CYGWIN=tty and CYGWIN=notty and had similar experiences with
> both.
> 

Cat worked for me as well.  vi on the other hand froze up when I tried
pasting more than three lines.  I think I was able to paste larger
quantities to vi before.

wilson

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