This is the X Clipboard. It demos the X selection mechanism implemented in Xt using the XA_CLIPBOARD selection. The Andrew text widget also automatically supports the XA_PRIMARY selection of text using the left mouse click and drag to select and the middle mouse click to paste. To install xclipboard and it's man page on your system disk, execute su make install The exectable and man page will be install in the following directories: /usr/local/bin /usr/catman/local/man1
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