[RFP] misc from cygutils

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 06:13, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:

> Has the buffersize limitation of /dev/clipboard been removed? Since 
> 'cat' uses a 4k internal buffer, and /dev/clipboard (didn't) support 
> state between calls, you couldn't
>    cat /dev/clipboard
> if the clipboard contained more than 4k of data.
>    And, of course, /dev/clipboard was not always writeable...although it 
> IS now...

The buffer limitation was removed when I implemented the write feature
:}. So, yes it's been fixed since ...
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg01576.html
 
> To be honest, even though I wrote the original read-only /dev/clipboard 
> support, I don't use it...I use putclip and getclip. :-)

alias putclip="cp %1 /dev/clipboard" ?

Rob