From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 2 12:56:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F4D106566C for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 12:56:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from mta21.charter.net (mta21.charter.net [216.33.127.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100098FC12 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 12:56:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imp11 ([10.20.200.11]) by mta21.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.09.02.04 201-2219-117-106-20090629) with ESMTP id <20100102125604.BNZC21519.mta21.charter.net@imp11>; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:56:04 -0500 Received: from Moe ([24.176.96.8]) by imp11 with smtp.charter.net id Qcw11d0090Aqir405cw3Z3; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:56:03 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=afvDqCEW88Aa8tyi2zoA:9 a=cXqmo2TdQI15VR55Mcwa4NhBsSMA:4 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 From: "Charles Howse" To: "'Chad Perrin'" , "'FreeBSD-Questions'" References: <000401ca8af5$3d7a3440$b86e9cc0$@net> <20100101152549.GA2220@debian> <000101ca8af9$de64d3c0$9b2e7b40$@net> <20100101180412.GA24135@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20100101180412.GA24135@guilt.hydra> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:56:17 -0600 Message-ID: <004101ca8baa$fa93eca0$efbbc5e0$@net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcqLDfCLjjeqwHSHQtaIK+eqjeW4vQAnNABw Content-Language: en-us Cc: Subject: RE: xclip X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:56:05 -0000 > -----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! :-((