actually, i lied when i said that nothing ever comes out of the snarf buffer. if i copy some text externally (inside mac os), then i get it, just once, inside plan 9/vmware. reading it seems to clear it.
e.g. term% cat /dev/snarf hello world term% cat /dev/snarf term% 2009/7/30 roger peppe <[email protected]>: > continuing my litany of vmware woes: > > my vmware snarf buffer doesn't seem to read correctly.
