Previously, OS detection would happen on each invocation. This makes it
happen once (unless it fails, in which case it will try again on the
next invocation).
This has the additional benefit of localizing the platform-specific
checks and commands, too, versus spreading them out in separate
functions.
Ideally the parameter would just be removed-users could always
just do "clipcopy < some-file". but removing the parameter would break
backwards compatibility.
In any case, this simplifies the logic considerably.
