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From: dshr@eng.sun.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What stty/SET TERM settings for long pastes?
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Date: 10 Jan 91 01:34:23 GMT
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> I didn't get the beginning of this thread, but am I correct in assuming
> that you want to be able to cut/paste more than MaxSizeRequest bytes of
> data?  If so, I'd be very interested in how you do this.  My solution
> (which I don't like) is to simulate selections using properties and
> ClientMessages.  Instead of calling XConvertSelection the first client
> sends a ClientMessage and then blocks waiting for a ClientMessage which
> encodes the number of pieces into which the data is divided.  Then the
> data is transferred one piece at a time as a round trip (i.e., the
> cutting client must wait for acknowledgement of the receipt of each
> segment of data before it sends the next segment); this allows the pasting
> client to assemble the data in the proper order.  I am very interested
> in this because it cuts to the heart of what I am trying to do now.

This is the wrong thing to do.  Read the ICCCM,  section 2.7.2 [pg 504 in
the Digital Press 2nd edition] for information on INCR properties.

	David.