I did this in JHS and the console, in jqt it seems to have hung my session! Oops

Maybe Jimmy's suggestion of wd 'clippaste' is better for that environment.

Cheers, bob


> On Jan 29, 2019, at 9:09 AM, 'robert therriault' via Programming 
> <programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> In Darwin shell 'pbpaste' returns the contents of the clipboard. In the case 
> below I copied the JVERSION information to clipboard and that shows up as the 
> response.
> 
>   shell 'pbpaste'
>   JVERSION
> Engine: j807/j64/darwin
> Release-b: commercial/2019-01-22T16:42:49
> Library: 8.07.22
> Platform: Darwin 64
> Installer: J807 install
> InstallPath: /users/bobtherriault/j64-807
> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
> 
> Cheers, bob
> 
>> On Jan 29, 2019, at 9:03 AM, David Mitchell 
>> <davidmitch...@honeoyeincolor.biz> wrote:
>> 
>> Brian,
>> 
>> Someone will need to do the low-level coding for Darwin to duplicate this.
>> 
>> Question: does
>> 
>> shell 'pbpaste'
>> 
>> Do anything interesting?  I don't have a mac and can't try it.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> On 1/29/2019 11:40, Brian Schott wrote:
>>> David, that looks very promising, but does not quite work for me.
>>> 
>>>   load'~addons/general/misc/clippaste.ijs'
>>>   getcliptext''
>>> |domain error: cd
>>> |   0=    OpenClipboard 0
>>>   JVERSION
>>> Engine: j807/j64/darwin
>>> Beta-f: commercial/2018-06-28T12:14:57
>>> Library: 8.07.16
>>> Platform: Darwin 64
>>> Installer: J807 install
>>> InstallPath: /users/brian/j64-807
>>> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
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