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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:15:00 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: treating drives as files
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:01:57AM -0700, Alex Goldman wrote:
>In UNIX, one can do things like
>
>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image
>
>Is this possible in Cygwin?

Yes.  Here is the syntax:

  dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image

cgf

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