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: <002d01c0b3b8$da992d80$0b5ba02f@europe.nortel.com> X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: "Simon McCaughey" To: Earnie Boyd References: <3ABB5700.2C039A74@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: useing /dev/fd0 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:46:48 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Why wl it be going away soon? as a new user to cygwin i find it very useful... Simon. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Earnie Boyd" To: "Dmitrii Pasechnik" Cc: "Jeremy Greiner" ; Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:00 PM Subject: Re: useing /dev/fd0 > 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 > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple