X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:34:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Beauchamp, Warren J (GE Comm Fin)" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin cpio with tape support? In-Reply-To: <0B325729120E424CA37C2D7832B3F0E201A95373@CINMLVEM20.e2k.ad.ge.com> Message-ID: References: <0B325729120E424CA37C2D7832B3F0E201A95373@CINMLVEM20.e2k.ad.ge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Beauchamp, Warren J wrote: > Hi, > > I have poked around on the web trying to find this for a while and am > out of luck. > > I have a DAT drive on a Win2000 server, have installed the latest build > of cygwin(1.5.20), and am able to mount and access the DAT drive with mt > and tar but not with cpio. There's a cpio archive on the tape I need to > read. I have seen references to cygwin builds of cpio that contain tape > support. Can you point me in the right direction for the current > binaries? Can you access the drive with dd? You should be able to use dd to write the archive to stdout, and then pipe it to "cpio -i"... HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/