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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:00:32 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Dmitrii Pasechnik <dima AT cs DOT uu DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: useing /dev/fd0
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Dmitrii Pasechnik wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jeremy Greiner wrote:
> 
> >I am running a script that is trying to access /dev/fd0 and it says it
> >doesn't exist.. how do I make such a file or point and actually have it
> >point to my floppy drive
> 
> if your floppy is a: then just use
> //a
> to assess it.
> E.g.
> ls //a
> gives you the cygwin equivalent of
> dir a:
> 

Please, don't use the //a deprecated method, it will be going away. 
Either use the /cygdrive/a method or the a:/ method.  You can also do
`mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /' and then do the /a method.

If you're looking for the Raw Device method check the documentation at
http://cygwin.com .

Earnie.

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