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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!nntp.uio.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is there a Cut and Paste for FreeBSD like selection for Linux? Date: 4 Jun 1996 14:01:28 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4p1fjo$rb@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <eng-sc.833855511@reef.cs.jcu.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <eng-sc.833855511@reef.cs.jcu.edu.au>, Simon Coggins <eng-sc@jcu.edu.au> wrote: > >Does anyone know if there is a port/program like selection (gpm) on linux?. >I normaly use Xwin it's getting slow with all the swapping (low memory). So >I'm going back to VC's.. But I miss cut and paste :) This depends on mouse support being added to the console driver. (Apparently it's possible to do it as an ugly hack, but that's not the FreeBSD way 8-). It's listed as a high priority task on the "to-do" list, but no-one's volunteered to do it yet... -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org