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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:17:21 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Access to a tape drive
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In-Reply-To: <2918901B6FB3D111838D00E0290F7D0D80DCCC@MADG002A>; from jamenendez@ssa.siemens.es on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:28:13AM +0100

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:28:13AM +0100, "Men?ndez-Herrero, Jose-Antonio" wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just a question.
> With Cygwin Unix emulator, it is possible to access to a tape drive
> installed in a PC running WinNT / Win95 using commands like "tar" ? 

So you didn't read the online users guide, did you?

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

Tapes are not supported on 9x, BTW.

Corinna

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