Spectre wrote to Nigel Reed <=-

This is a known feature.

Yeah, no its not... it only happens on a Mystic BBS, on other systems
it performs as expected. It simply refuses to paste into the terminal
at all... under normal circs I can copy and paste as expected on any
other BBS..

Yeah, I'm afraid it is. It may just be coincidence that it's only happening for you on Mystic systems, or perhaps Mystic does something which provokes the bug more often. but it can and DOES surface on any BBS software. As was stated, it's a known bug and has been for quite a long while.

The Alt-B scrollback trick mentioned usually wakes the client up when this bug is occurring. You don't need to stay in scrollback to mark and copy. Simply bring up the scrollback buffer, press ESC to return, and you'll see the cursor change format. That indicates it will now work normally.

Shift-Insert will always paste into the terminal even when right clicking does not work.
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This is a known feature.

Yeah, no its not... it only happens on a Mystic BBS, on other systems

Yeah, I'm afraid it is. It may just be coincidence that it's only happening for you on Mystic systems, or perhaps Mystic does something

Not with you there... the regular form is, it never works, get a different version. This is 95%+ of the time it works as expected. I don't call many Mystic systems so it took a while to figure out what it was doing, but it's 100% only with mystic systems it fails.

I can conceivably see a variation in the OS you're runnning it on, although that leaves me perplexed as to why Mystic. Does its author not like Mystic?
At this point I dunno, there's one other mention of the same behaviour.. so
I'm thinking there's something to it.

At this point I'm just about done with it. For my purposes it works enough, I'm also not interested enough to go and chase down danger mouse or the two
of spades and raise an issue, it was only for interests sake.

Spec


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