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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Can we salvage the clipboard?
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Date: 11 Jun 90 23:18:42 GMT
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In <74005.AA74005@slaka.sirius.se>, micke@slaka.sirius.se (Mikael Karlsson) writes:
>In message <8886@wehi.dn.mu.oz>, BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
>
>>Snap: Probably worse. Seems to use a static buffer for text of about
>>250 chars. Once that is full, no dice.
>
>    Here I don't agree. If anyone else has had this kind of problems,
>please let me know. Except if you're trying to paste into the CLI.
>I guess you do know that the input line is limited.

It will also not paste more than about 255 chars into Aterm. Snipit does. Thing
is, an input line to a CLI (or perhaps any console) is indeed limited to 255
characters. However, the line stops at the EOL character, and it should start
counting all over again.

>(Yes, I have added checking for AllocMem() failure, but I didn't
>think that would be necessary to show here.)
>
>    If you have any other ideas about things you would like to see
>in Snap, just send them to me, perhaps including some code on how
>to do it, and I'll see what I can do.

I have the devil of a time with having spurious characters show up in place of
other characters, and rerunning it will sometimes cure the problem, but more
often than not, the nature of the replacements will change. For example, I
might find that I Snap a line that reads:

	dh1:foo/bar/bla

and have it show up as

  dh1:foo5bar5bla

On the next reboot, using the same SNapped line. it might change to:

  dh1:foo/b3r/bl3

In fact, here is a sample of what I get for the lower case alphabet right now
(just tried it):

  abcdefghijklm5opqrstuvwxyz

I do use a remapped keyboard, but the only remappings are on the numeric pad,
which I find useless for anything but handy function keys. I did reduce the
severity of the problem by remapping only the ALTed numpad keys, but it's still
there to the degree noted.

Unfortunately, I value the remapped keys a lot more than Snap, so even though I
still use Snap, I watch out for the problem and kill it when it happens, then
run Snipit.

-larry

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