Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <3883A53D.B96E2F3@vinschen.de> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:26:53 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Abdelmajid Bouazza CC: cygwin Subject: Re: dd.exe References: <38827EAB.3C9AD50E@loria.fr> <3882FC5F.8B759ED4@vinschen.de> <38832614.85E9AC6@loria.fr> <388336A3.F0A59D88@vinschen.de> <38833F91.F077C2CE@loria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Abdelmajid Bouazza wrote: > I extract the file cygwin-inst-20000113_tar.gz in the cygwin directory > And now dd if=foo of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 works :-) > > But :-( I don't understand why it doesn't work when the /dev/fd0 isn't > mounted > using dd if=foo of=//./A: bs=512 ? Raw devices are not handled fully transparent by WinNT. Cygwin recognizes raw devices by their posix paths. > Exacly, I want to use dd independently of cygwin > (ie dd.exe + cygwinXX.dll only) No problem if you mount it before the first usage. Corinna -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com