vmw-01.txt -- VMware Command Line Tools ported to Minix 2.0 K. TAKAHAGI -- released Mar 2005 INTRODUCTION Vmw is a console program to use some useful functions of the official VMware-Tools, such as copy & paste and clock synchronization. See http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vmtools.html for VMware Command Line Tools. NAME vmw - VMware Command Line Tools SYNOPSIS vmw [-q] [-C|-c|-p|-r|-t|-v|-V] OPTIONS -C toggle 'copy & paste' feature -c copy to host's clipboard -p print product name -q be quiet (return exit status) -r print screen size -t set time and date -v paste from host's clipboard -V print version (default) NOTES It uses VMware's undocumented function investigated without any official information. Therefore it may not work with certain version of VMware. INSTALL $ make # DEBUG=1 for debug, COMPAT=1 for safety $ su # make install # put the binary into /usr/local/bin ACKNOWLEGMENTS Ken Kato has originally developed VMware Command Line Tools for DOS and Windows 9x/NT. Markus Gyger has written a Linux / Solaris port of the tool. AUTHOR K. TAKAHAGI