From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) BuildID: 20011205 While running the Front-end tests for Copy and Pate, I noticed that when I ran the "Copy Large Text" test that the test failed when I pasted the info into "Edit" or "Text Edit" on OpenVMS. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.follow steps in http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front- end/testcases/copy-paste/copy-large-text/copy-large-text-d.html Actual Results: Nothing is pasted Expected Results: text should be pasted to editor I could NOT reproduce this on my version of Linux (I have 2001112013) and using "gEdit 0.6.1". This was a problem with a large amount of text data, if I copied a couple of words, it worked fine. I used "edit" on OpenVMS, which I got into by typing "edit" in a terminal window; and I also used "Text Editor" that I found in Desktop Apps.

Is the OpenVMS clipboard async by default? This could be bug 56219....

> Is the OpenVMS clipboard async by default? Don't know the answer to this. Sorry. Also noticed this was a problem with the following testbed tests (just for reference): http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/copy-paste/copy-js- text/copy-js-text-d.html http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/copy-paste/copy- entities/copy-entities-d.html

I suspect this is connected with bug 56219 because I tried running Mozilla with the --sync option and then I could get something to appear in the text window (but not all of the text). Marking dependant on bug 56219 rather than a duplicate of, as I want to make sure this problem really does go away on OpenVMS when bug 56219 is fixed.

Doing the test in comment 2, http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/copy-paste/copy-js-text/copy-js-text-d.html it works if use paste using MB2 rather than doing a COPY/PASTE.

I have found a way to make this work (using Mozilla 1.2alpha but I don't think that's relevant). The problem I believe is that the receiving application has to be able to receive a LARGE amount of clipboard input. Previously I was using a DECterm and the CREATE command and that wasn't working. I just tried using a DECterm and EDIT, and voila, the PASTE worked. It took a few moments before the actual insertion of characters started, and several minutes for the paste to complete, but the resultant file size is about 850KB and that's the correct size. Marking resolved.