Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:56:17 -0600 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: "'Chad Perrin'" <perrin@apotheon.com>, "'FreeBSD-Questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: xclip Message-ID: <004101ca8baa$fa93eca0$efbbc5e0$@net> In-Reply-To: <20100101180412.GA24135@guilt.hydra> References: <000401ca8af5$3d7a3440$b86e9cc0$@net> <20100101152549.GA2220@debian> <000101ca8af9$de64d3c0$9b2e7b40$@net> <20100101180412.GA24135@guilt.hydra>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chad Perrin > Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 12:04 PM > To: 'FreeBSD-Questions' > Subject: Re: xclip > > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:48:28AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > I have a script that outputs some text that I would like in the > clipboard > > that I can paste into an email in Windows Outlook. > > As far as I'm aware, there is no tool that uses the clipboard in any OS > that will allow that clipboard to be used outside of that OS. This > appears to be what you want to do. If you want to be able to copy > something from a guest OS to the host OS clipboard, I think you will > need > to investigate features/tools for the VM software or the host OS > instead, > or employ a clever work-around such as using an SSH client on the host > OS > to "talk to" the guest OS, and copy from the SSH client to wherever > else > you need the data in your host OS. I guess I will abandon this and try to do it in Windows. It's just that scripting in Unix is **SO** much easier than vbs in Windows! :-((
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