clipboard sharing: wrong buffer size

[thomas]

When inserting a text clip in AmigaOS which was cut from Windows, the CHRS chunk is too long for one byte per line. I suppose that the size is calculated with cr-lf as end-of-line sequence and the cr characters are removed afterwards leaving one byte per line too much in the length field. Single-line clips are ok.

The problem does not show in editors which can only use printable characters because they cut the clip at \0. But editors which can include \0 characters in the text (like CygnusEd) will include the garbage at the end of the clip.

I've attached a small test program which displays the discrepancy.

[Toni Wilen]

You are correct, size of buffer was calculated after line-ending conversion but size calculation used original buffer pointer...