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From: eng-sc@jcu.edu.au (Simon Coggins)
Subject: Is there a Cut and Paste for FreeBSD like selection for Linux?
Message-ID: <eng-sc.833855511@reef.cs.jcu.edu.au>
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Organization: James Cook University
Date:  4 Jun 96 02:31:51 GMT
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Does anyone know if there is a port/program like selection (gpm) on linux?.
I normaly use Xwin it's getting slow with all the swapping (low memory). So
I'm going back to VC's.. But I miss cut and paste :)

Regards
Simon

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