Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/21/13:09:48
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Alex Goldman wrote:
> On 7/21/05, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT XXXXXX DOT XXX> wrote:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:01:57AM -0700, Alex Goldman wrote:
> > >In UNIX, one can do things like
> > >
> > >dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image
> > >
> > >Is this possible in Cygwin?
> >
> > Yes. Here is the syntax:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image
>
> This is what I had above. Cygwin doesn't have /dev. This doesn't work.
For the second sentence above ("Cygwin doesn't have /dev"), try
ls -l /dev/fd0
See also
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html#using-specialnames>.
As for "This doesn't work.", did you try it? If so, please read and
follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
HTH,
Igor
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