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From: peter@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Peter Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm/dxterm selection into pipe?
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.153244@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 31 Jan 91 20:32:44 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.162418@amdew.llnl.gov>
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In article <1991Jan29.162418@amdew.llnl.gov>, sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik
C. Sowa) writes:
|> I would like to be able to pipe the contents of the highlighted
|> selection in a terminal window (xterm or dxterm) into various
commands,
|> principally lpr. This would give me a "print selection" capability.
Any
|> solutions out there? BTW, I am running ultrix 4.0 / DECwindows, but
I
|> have the R4 clients.

I wrote a little routine named xget_selection which I think does this.
It is available via anonymous ftp to ria.ccs.uwo.ca as
pub/xget_selection.tar.Z.

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