Re: Redirect to Clipboard


Subject: Re: Redirect to Clipboard
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 17:24:24 MST


Yup you're mistaken so here's your flame... :-)

NeXTStep/OpenStep supported two applications "copy" and "paste" which
direted stdin to the clipboard. A VERY handy pair of programs which I
would like to see on all Linux systems.

-- John

Ferwerda Darren (app3dxf) wrote:

>There is no easy way that I know of. You can redirect the output to a file,
>then open up emacs or another text editor and copy it that way. Or you
>should be able to just let the output go to the gnome-terminal output, and
>copy it from there. Not nice, or easy, but no OS I know of can copy
>directly from the CLUI to the GUI. I may be mistaken, so if I am, flame
>away. :)
>

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