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From: kifer@CS.SunySB.EDU (Michael Kifer)
To: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Subject: Re: 20.1 b2 x-get-selection seems broken 
In-reply-to: "Steven L Baur" of 24 Feb 1997 21:00:29 PST
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:43:52 -0500
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>>>>> "SLB" == Steven L Baur <of 24 Feb 1997 21:00:29 PST> writes:

    SLB> Martin Buchholz writes:

    >>>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kifer <kifer@CS.SunySB.EDU> writes:
    Michael> If I select something outside xemacs window (say, in xterm),
    Michael> (x-get-selection) causes an error:

    Michael> selection owner couldn't convert: COMPOUND_TEXT

    >> I have seen this occasionally, but have not been able to reliably
    >> reproduce it.  Anyways, Michael's particular example works for me.

    SLB> I've never seen it.  Perhaps it's a CDE thing?

    No, not CDE. I am using plain old twm with X11R6.


	--michael  

