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Date: | Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:09:36 +0100 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
To: | cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: Filename syntax question |
Message-ID: | <20010130160936.C3877@cygbert.vinschen.de> |
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In-Reply-To: | <OFC759F2DA.20FF3F26-ON852569E4.004EEECD@raleigh.ibm.com>; from egb@us.ibm.com on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:28:54AM -0500 |
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:28:54AM -0500, Ed Bradford wrote: > I have removed all my MKS utilities in favor of CYGWIN. Ooops, I am > now stuck. I can't seem to copy disk partitions. > > In cmd.exe mode and with the Microsoft C compiler I wrote a test program > that simply reads disk partitions. It works like this: > > readdisk \\.\c: > > Note the "\\.\c:" is the formal Windows 2000 name for the C: partition. > With > MKS dd I could literally copy the entire disk partition to a file like > this: > > dd if=\\.\c: of=system-save bs=64k > > and all would work. I cannot seem to get any CYGWIN utility to understand > the > \\.\c: filename. I have tried > dd if=\\\\.\\c: of=x > dd if=//./c: of=x > but neither works. Sometimes cygwin will think I am trying to talk to a > computer named ".". Cygwin used to use UNIX names for those raw devices. You will have to mount them. I have just uploaded the latest changes to the documentation. Look especially into: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN769 Hope, that helps, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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