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 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3ABB5700.2C039A74@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:00:32 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitrii Pasechnik CC: Jeremy Greiner , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: useing /dev/fd0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dmitrii Pasechnik wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jeremy Greiner wrote: > > >I am running a script that is trying to access /dev/fd0 and it says it > >doesn't exist.. how do I make such a file or point and actually have it > >point to my floppy drive > > if your floppy is a: then just use > //a > to assess it. > E.g. > ls //a > gives you the cygwin equivalent of > dir a: > Please, don't use the //a deprecated method, it will be going away. Either use the /cygdrive/a method or the a:/ method. You can also do `mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /' and then do the /a method. If you're looking for the Raw Device method check the documentation at http://cygwin.com . Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple