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From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: raw floppy access again
19 Nov 1997 23:57:47 -0800 :
Message-ID: <01BCF535.73F48DD0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
"'dan AT lectra DOT fr'"
<dan AT lectra DOT fr>

Daniel Roche wrote:
> with gnuwin32/b18 and the last patch from Sergey Okhapkin on a NT box
> tar tvzf /dev/fd0 work fine .
>
> with exactly the same software installed on W95 , it does not work at all 
!
> i get a /dev/fd0: no such file or directory, and there is no access on my
> floppy.
>
> are raw floppy access supposed to work on W95 ??
>

The APIs for raw device access on NT and Windows 95 differs. If you need 
raw floppy access on W95 - just write the missed code and contribute it!-)

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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