From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: Tape & Floppy 20 Nov 1997 07:24:37 -0800 Message-ID: <6iAT0bA$pfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Sven, > >Isn't there anybody out there who would like to implement floppy and tape >access for cygwin on Win95? > >I would really like to use tar or cpio on tapes and disks as I use to do >with Unix and OS/2. I suppose you mean *raw* floppy access ? If so, just get Sergey's newest coolview version of cygwin.dll and raw floppy access works perfectly. Tape access is supposed to work, too, but it does not work for me at the moment. Would be *really* great to create backups with tar or cpio to my DAT streamer. > >regards Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".