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From: Fekete Gabor <feketga@delfin.unideb.hu>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reading back characters from terminal
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:54:48 +0200 (DFT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.20.0308141753480.13862-100000@delfin.unideb.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.20.0308141136360.38050-100000@delfin.unideb.hu>



> 
> 
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Fekete Gabor wrote:
> > 
> > > is there a way to read back characters from the terminal (e.g. xterm).
> > 
> > No. There isn't even any guarantee that the characters are actually
> > stored anywhere. Certainly, hardcopy terminals don't store the text,
> 
one more question.

then why can I select text with the mouse both in xterm and on a text
console and then paste it somewhere?



  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-14 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-13 18:52 reading back characters from terminal Fekete Gabor
2003-08-13 23:29 ` Glynn Clements
2003-08-14  9:38   ` Fekete Gabor
2003-08-14 15:54     ` Fekete Gabor [this message]
2003-08-14 22:49       ` Glynn Clements
2003-08-14 11:07 ` program killed QingHua Wang
2003-08-14 10:25   ` Tony Clarke
2003-08-14 13:00     ` QingHua Wang
2003-08-14 12:54       ` Tony Clarke

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