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From: biggers@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (Mark Biggers)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: help with Sun selection service
Message-ID: <3568@caip.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 22:08:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  5 22:08:22 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 6-Oct-86 05:58:23 EDT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: SunWindows, Selection Service


In my work on a tiling window manager, I have needed to be able to
copy text between Sun Windows applications and our manager's
applications.  I sent the code below (ok, with a makefile and header
file) to Sun support, after ok'ing it with them, and have had no
response after being passed to yet another support person.

I have had no problem running the "get_select" function - I can
select text with the mouse, run "get_select", and the text goes to
stdout - fine.  However, I can't get "put_select", my attempt at
stuffing text INTO the Selection Service, to work.  The appropriate
docs for this stuff are pretty fuzzy at best (I am being kind...).

I would appreciate anyone's help on this - I don't have a lot of
time to spend on trial and error determinations of how to get
the S.S. to do what I want.


Mark

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