Hi Stephen. base64 is used to save the existing clipboard contents for restoring it later.
Best regards, Mikhail Gusarov. On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Stephen Schoun <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/27/2014 09:28 AM, Matthew Cengia wrote: > >> On 2014-04-27 06:26, Stephen Schoun wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> This is my first post to the password-store listserv. Pass works >>> great for me on Linux, but I have been struggling to get it to work >>> on Windows. One of the issues I came across was the difficulty in >>> finding an executable of the "base64" program for >>> cygwin/mingw/msys/msysgit anywhere on the internet and I don't >>> really want to compile it myself. I'm actually using msysgit. >>> >>> However, I found a workaround that seems to do the job. If I >>> understand correctly, base64 is used to strip newlines when writing >>> and reading from the clipboard manager. >>> >> Hi Stephen, >> >> No, the purpose of base64 is to explicitly *prevent* the stripping of >> trailing newlines from the clipboard. Without it, the last newline of >> the clipboard's contents is removed, and that may be unintended. I *think* >> Jason has written an alternative to the base64 method which should be >> out soon. >> >> Hi Matthew, > > Thanks for replying. Are you sure that the desired effect is to *prevent* > stripping of newlines? When a password is copied to the clipboard, I want > to be able to paste that password without having it include a newline > character. When pasting logon information in some web pages, for example, > browsers might interpret the newline character as an actual character of > the password, or they might interpret the newline as a request to submit > the page before I am ready. > > Best regards, > > --Stephen > > _______________________________________________ > Password-Store mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/password-store >
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