From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:14:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (get_clipboard_data): Work around a bug in Windows95
X-Git-Tag: emacs-20.4~631
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cc6d8c5b60d02946f5b5fb149a8ba9c0c670aba2;p=emacs.git

(get_clipboard_data): Work around a bug in Windows95
DOS box which doubles the reported size of text in the clipboard.
---

diff --git a/src/w16select.c b/src/w16select.c
index 68e958fa427..b1f4b3adeba 100644
--- a/src/w16select.c
+++ b/src/w16select.c
@@ -369,10 +369,15 @@ get_clipboard_data (Format, Data, Size, Raw)
   __dpmi_regs regs;
   unsigned long xbuf_addr;
   unsigned char *dp = Data;
-  /* The last 32-byte aligned block of data.  See commentary below.  */
-  unsigned char *last_block = dp + ((Size & 0x1f)
-				    ? (Size & 0x20)
-				    : Size - 0x20);
+  /* Copying text from the DOS box on Windows 95 evidently doubles the
+     size of text as reported by the clipboard.  So we must begin
+     looking for the zeroes as if the actual size were half of what's
+     reported.  Jeez, what a mess!  */
+  unsigned half_size = Size > 32 ? Size / 2 : Size;
+  /* Where we should begin looking for zeroes.  See commentary below.  */
+  unsigned char *last_block = dp + ((half_size & 0x1f)
+				    ? (half_size & 0x20)
+				    : half_size - 0x20);
 
   if (Format != CF_OEMTEXT)
     return 0;
@@ -419,7 +424,8 @@ get_clipboard_data (Format, Data, Size, Raw)
 	      dp--;
 	      *dp++ = '\n';
 	      xbuf_addr++;
-	      last_block--;	/* adjust the beginning of the last 32 bytes */
+	      if (last_block > dp)
+		last_block--;	/* adjust the beginning of the last 32 bytes */
 	      if (*lcdp == '\n')
 		lcdp++;
 	    }