[SP2] Clipboard eating my homework

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Gilles Ganault

Hello

I just bought a new Acer desktop from which I removed Vista by
reformating cleanly, and installed XPSP2.

I just noticed something funny: When I copy a big pile of text to the
clipboard, only some of it gets pasted:

Here's the input, a 1,195-line and 133,309-character text file:
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/3594/xpbadclipboardinputjr0.jpg

Here's the output after pasting from the clipboard:
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9198/xpbadclipboardoutputjz3.jpg

Notice that the text pasted in the new window shrunk to 278 lines and
29,726 characters!

It's not an UltraEdit issue, as I can reproduce this with eg. the
Programmer's Notepad editor.

The PC is still pretty clean, ie. I've only installed a few of the
applications I commonly use, and I can't think of a utility that could
be doing this. I also ran the up-to-date Free AVG anti-virus, which
didn't find anything.

Does someone have any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks for any tip.
 
I just noticed something funny: When I copy a big pile of text to the
clipboard, only some of it gets pasted:
Click to expand...

Found out what it was: At some point in the text, there was the
following sequence, which kept the clipboard from pasting the text
correctly:

0D 0A 00 0D 0A

The 00 in the middle was the culprit.

HTH,
 
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