Re: accessing the Linux clipboard...

["John K. Mackenzie" jkm3@xxxxxxxx]

Bravo, folks! I still have my original 5 lb XyWrite
looseleaf manual. I guess it goes back to the early 80's? Late 70's?
No  no date found. Sure paid a lot of bills. Delighted to see it's
being used and improved.

John K. Mackenzie

At 09:37 AM 2/8/09, you wrote:
> Carl Distefano wrote:
> >  I wonder if the xytonix.sh
> > script can be tweaked so that input
> > from "frxy" stops when the EOF char is encountered?
> Carl, thanks for the response. I've been experimenting some
> more and improved on the XPL program and script. I switched to saving the
> defined text to a macro, and the macro to a file, which was less
> complicated and didn't require cleaning out the contents of the file; it
> has so far accurately copied the selected text every time. But I now want
> take a look at what you sent.
>
> But as a quick reply to yr final comment, I did some online research and
> found a way to kill the EOF using the script; my revised xytonix.sh
> script is:
>
> #! /bin/bash
> #
> # for xywrite/dosemu, for use with xytonix.pm
> # removes EOF from frxy and outputs result to frxya
> # copies frxya to clipboard for system use
> # deletes frxya
> #
> tr -d '\032' < /home/pgl/data/xy4/clip/frxy >
> /home/pgl/data/xy4/clip/frxya;\
> xclip -i -selection c < /home/pgl/data/xy4/clip/frxya;\
> rm /home/pgl/data/xy4/clip/frxya
>
> Paul Lagasse