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                  Xterm to Xterm Text Paste Problem

The problem is one I have seen for years and have no solution for. The
problem occurs when you select more than 1 Kbytes of text at the same time
from an xterm window, and then try to paste it into a xterm command that is
reading standard input directly from the xterms (cooked) tty device. This
includes UNIX command line "mail" command, or "cat >file" type commands.

Example: in one xterm select at least 40 longish lines of text, in another
type  cat>file and paste the text and then type ^D to end the text insert.

The recieving xterm will display all the lines of the pasted text EXCEPT the
last buffer, but the file the "cat" command create will only show the last
1Kbyte or so (prehaps with some overlap with the text that was actually
displayed during the paste). The buffer saved started at the line boundary
as is the text that was printed during the insert.

The problem disappears if the amount of selected text is less than about 1Kbyte
in size, the selected text is NOT coming from a xterm (EG: postit note, or web
browser etc) and/or the destination is into something other than a command
directly reading from the recieving xterms tty (EG: pasting into a "vim"
running in a xterm is fine, but a "cat" command reading stdin fails). It does
NOT matter is the text is being transfered between two different xterms or the
same xterm.

The result is that only the last 'buffer' of the text being transfered via the
X window system is actually inserted even though the recieving xterm may or may
not show all the text that was selected.

Workaround... Don't insert text in "cat", but start an editor like "vim".

Otherwise you will need to select and paste small amounts of text at a time.
(Yuck)

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