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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Peter Ashford wrote:

> > Does it help to set the variables interprogram-cut-function and
> > interprogram-paste-function to nil?
> 
> No, it didn't.  What do those variables do?

They enable the interaction between Emacs and the X selection machinery 
(or the clipboard if you are on Windows).