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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:54:09 -0700
From: "Kevin Dahl" <KDAHL AT sidney DOT ars DOT usda DOT gov>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: DD for windows: - problem imaging a floppy disk......
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I sent the following problem to fileutils-bugs AT gnu DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu and Bob
Proulx told me to ask you guys.......

Thanks for any help you may provide......

- - - - -

> When I try to copy an image from one floppy disk to another.......
> 
> dd if=\\.\A: of=D:\dd\boot.img........copies the image to a tmp
> directory just fine
> 
> but
> 
> dd if=D:\dd\boot.img of=\\.\A: ........says permission
denied........
> 
> (I am running WinNT 4.0 SP6a.........NTFS......)

Hmm...  That does seem like it should work.  Try the Cygwin folks at
the following locations.

Bob

http://cygwin.com/ 

      Cygwin Home Page 

http://cygwin.com/faq/ 

      Cygwin FAQ. Most excellent! 

http://cygwin.com/bugs.html 

      Cygwin Bug Report Guidelines. This is a good reference for
      general bug reporting.




K-Dee

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