Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010323115654.02200b20@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:04:04 -0500 To: "Simon McCaughey" , Earnie Boyd From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: useing /dev/fd0 In-Reply-To: <002d01c0b3b8$da992d80$0b5ba02f@europe.nortel.com> References: <3ABB5700 DOT 2C039A74 AT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" You could check the email archives for this answer. It was reiterated even in the last week. For your benefit and others, "//" in Cygwin equates to UNC paths in Windows, so there is allot of network activity that's generated by this syntax. To avoid the performance issues and the general syntax/semantic collisions, "//" is deprecated (and has been for some time now). Eventually (possibly very soon) it will be going away for good. As Earnie mentioned, there are many syntax options that don't cause the problems I mentioned and provide full access to Windows drives. You should get used to using one or all of these. You'll quickly see that the change doesn't force much of a change on you. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 11:46 AM 3/23/2001, Simon McCaughey wrote: >Why wl it be going away soon? as a new user to cygwin i find it very >useful... > >Simon. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Earnie Boyd" >To: "Dmitrii Pasechnik" >Cc: "Jeremy Greiner" ; >Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:00 PM >Subject: Re: useing /dev/fd0 > > > > 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. > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple