1INTRODUCTION 2============ 3 4xcut is a small but useful program which can take standard input and 5store it in the X cut buffer, and also work in reverse by writing 6the X cut buffer onto standard output. 7 8The idea for this program came from having to manually cut and then 9paste MIT magic cookie information for remote X logins. It really 10annoyed me so I found a book on X11 programming and figured out how 11the cut and paste buffers worked and xcut was born! Since then, I've 12actually found xcut to be useful for other tasks, mainly taking the 13output of shell commands and pasting them into emacs. 14 15xcut is distributed under the GNU Public Licence (GPL). 16 17 18INSTALLATION 19============ 20 21To compile xcut, a correctly configured setup of Imake is required. 22If you don't have Imake installed or it is badly configured, you'll 23have to create your own Makefile, using the -I and -L options of your 24compiler to point to your X11 include files and libraries. Type 25'make' to compile xcut. 26 27Type 'make install' and 'make install.man' to install xcut and the 28manual page, respectively. 29 30xcut has been tested on the following systems but is likely to work on 31many more. 32 33 - Linux 2.2, gcc 2.7.2.3 34 - Solaris 2.6, gcc 2.8.1 35 - Digital Unix 4.0b, gcc 2.8.1 36 37To build the manual page from the .yo file, the YODL documentation 38package is required. YODL can be obtained in RPM format from the 39redhat-contrib archive, or from ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ 40 41 42Tim Potter 4321st September, 1999 44tpot@acsys.anu.edu.au 45