Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" To: Subject: RE: md5sum of a CD Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:41:06 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030901085619.GA19531@gentoo.malaquias.no-ip.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf > Of romildo AT uber DOT com DOT br > How can one find the md5sum of a CD > in Windows? > > In Linux, one can do > > $ md5sum /dev/cdrom This won't work on cygwin (nor in Windows AFAIK). Cygwin is an emulated environment, which depends entirely (exception; managed mode fs) on Windows for its filesystem; thus no possible way to do this. Unless you're knowledgable enough yourself to implement it within the Cygwin filesystem _emulation_. Igor, CGF, ...? Please verify, is this correctly understood/described? /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59°16.37'N, 17°12.60'E --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/