Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040309123743.03ce6c08@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:42:50 -0500 To: "Mazzotta, Paul" , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: DDS4 device mnemonic with cygwin In-Reply-To: <82EA2C90A03BD6118B100008C7B1626B3D4BAB@SYSAMAWIL1AE> References: <82EA2C90A03BD6118B100008C7B1626B3D4BAB@SYSAMAWIL1AE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:27 PM 3/9/2004, you wrote: > To whom it may concern; > > According to the cygwin user's guide, tape drive devices > are mapped to /dev... or /device... . Shouldn't you be able > to see these directories from a cygwin window under the > / directory ? If so, is it because I did not install all of cygwin > at the time of installation ? On my Windows 2000 host in a > cygwin window, I need to be able to perform a tar command > in the form: tar cvf /dev...(for tape device) filename. > > Any help in resloving this issue is most appreciated ! Did you read the first paragraph of the section on POSIX devices in the User's Guide? It applies to all the devices described in that section. Also, to correct an incorrect implication in your statement above, the POSIX paths for these devices start with "/dev", not "/device". -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/