Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <39FF1ED5.6BB62CC2@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:34:45 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-SMP i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: Need to create tar archives in Windows and extract in UNIX References: <003601c04374$93f61820$0700005a@pcsonline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Steinlen wrote: > > What software do I need to be able to exchange files between Windows NT 4 > and Unix using "tar" and floppy disks? Can Unix mountable floppies be > accessed by Cygwin? Either by using DOS formatted floppies which are readable by most UNIX derivates or by using the floppy as a raw device: mount -f -b //./A: /dev/fd0 tar xvf /dev/fd0 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@sources.redhat.com Red Hat, Inc. mailto:vinschen@redhat.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com