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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:53:51 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Making tar diskette from Windows.
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010205184159.01982eb8@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:44:00PM -0500

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:44:00PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 06:38 PM 2/5/2001, Fennacy, Jim wrote:
> >Using the tar utility on Windows I can make a tar-formatted file.  However,
> >I want to make a tar diskette.  And I can't figure out how.  Does anyone
> >know how?
> >
> >Thanks - Jim.
> 
> 
> 
> Corinna described this before on this list.  You might try looking in the 
> email archives.  I believe you want to mount //./a: to /dev/fd0 but I'm 
> not sure if that's all of it.  Corinna's message will tell you everything 
> you need to know though.

...and don't forget to look into the online documentation:

http://cygwin.com/docs.html

especially here:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN769


Corinna

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