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Fri, 17 Oct 2003

Fri Oct 17 21:55:30 2003 X-window/XP integration status report
This remains a big problem. I have been unable to get cut-and-paste to work consistently between X applications (especially emacs) and Windows apps. Using SSH Secure Shell, Ctrl-Ins works most of the time as a "Copy Selection", but not from emacs, which captures this as a command. Unsetting the key doesn't seem to help.

Putty CLAIMS to copy on select (see the putty FAQ, item A5.4), but does not seem to work, even from a non-emacs application. And I can't get stuff from Windows to X, either.

I tried downloading SecureCRT from VanDyke. This has a "copy on select" option under Global Options > Options > Mouse . I have been unable to find such an option in SSH Secure Shell.

Alas, although my license says "Expires: Never", I get a message saying that my license is for an earlier version of SecureCRT. Apparently licenses older than 2001 or so have now timed out because of version creep. Oh well.

I can't get PKI to work under any of these ssh clients. It used to work under the old SecureCRT. It's least annoying under Putty, because both the username and password prompts show up in the terminal window, so you don't have to mouse around: you can just type.

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Fri Oct 17 16:07:08 2003 Can't see cross-device links
I have links in my home directory: from /home/wand/proj to /proj/wand
from /home/wand/proj2 to /proj/wand2
from /home/wand/scratch to /scratch/wand

None of these is visible from My Documents.

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