[pass] Replace base64 in cygwin?

[Mikhail Gusarov]

Hi Stephen.

base64 is used to save the existing clipboard contents for restoring it
later.


Best regards,
Mikhail Gusarov.


On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Stephen Schoun <stephen at schoun.net> wrote:

> On 04/27/2014 09:28 AM, Matthew Cengia wrote:
>
>> On 2014-04-27 06:26, Stephen Schoun wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> This is my first post to the password-store listserv.  Pass works
>>> great for me on Linux, but I have been struggling to get it to work
>>> on Windows.  One of the issues I came across was the difficulty in
>>> finding an executable of the "base64" program for
>>> cygwin/mingw/msys/msysgit anywhere on the internet and I don't
>>> really want to compile it myself.  I'm actually using msysgit.
>>>
>>> However, I found a workaround that seems to do the job.  If I
>>> understand correctly, base64 is used to strip newlines when writing
>>> and reading from the clipboard manager.
>>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> No, the purpose of base64 is to explicitly *prevent* the stripping of
>> trailing newlines from the clipboard. Without it, the last newline of
>> the clipboard's contents is removed, and that may be unintended. I *think*
>> Jason has written an alternative to the base64 method which should be
>> out soon.
>>
>>  Hi Matthew,
>
> Thanks for replying.  Are you sure that the desired effect is to *prevent*
> stripping of newlines?  When a password is copied to the clipboard, I want
> to be able to paste that password without having it include a newline
> character.  When pasting logon information in some web pages, for example,
> browsers might interpret the newline character as an actual character of
> the password, or they might interpret the newline as a request to submit
> the page before I am ready.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --Stephen
>
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