Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage

Ryan Johnson ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca
Thu Aug 8 13:48:00 GMT 2013


Hi all,

(no, that's not a typo in the subject line)

64-bit install, bash inside mintty, all latest packages with the 
cygwin1.dll snapshot shown below...

# <<< --- begin STC --->>>
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ryan-laptop-v02 1.7.23s(0.268/5/3) 20130729 19:11:42 
x86_64 Cygwin

$ echo "Reading" > /dev/clipboard

# hit [shift]+[insert] to paste
# (hopefully 8 characters is not "too long" to paste into a TTY)
# then hit ^D to finish
$ cat > tmp.txt

$ cat tmp.txt
Rg
eRaedaidnign
g
$ cat /dev/clipboard
Reading
# <<< --- end STC --->>>

Thoughts?
Ryan


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