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Clipboard from Cygwin?


Dear All,


    I use NT4 (ServicePack 3) for texty, webby design stuff.


    I   got  Cygwin  B20  to  work  on  my  system,  primarily  to  help
intelligently batch-process all the html documents I've got to deal with
and amend.


    Now  that I've got Cygwin configured properly, I think Cygwin's Unix
user tools are absolutely fantastic.  Infinitely more useful than NT DOS
at any rate.


    The question I have is:


    If  I  have some text (this letter say) in the clipboard and want to
run a shellscript that takes input from the clipboard  (and  formats  it
left-right justified with nroff say), how is that done?


    Presumably  _one_  way  would be to have a Cygwin "clipboard" device
that you redirect from and to.  I guess  that  other  people  must  have
asked  this question before, but I can't find "clipboard" (or "clip") in
the FAQ:


        http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html


With kind regards,


Sandy
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