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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:42:50 -0500
To: "Mazzotta, Paul" <PMAZZOTT AT SYSTEMS DOT TEXTRON DOT com>,
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From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: DDS4 device mnemonic with cygwin
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At 12:27 PM 3/9/2004, you wrote:
>    To whom it may concern;
>
>    According to the cygwin user's guide, tape drive devices
>    are mapped to /dev... or /device...  .  Shouldn't you be able
>    to see these directories from a cygwin window under the
>    /  directory ?  If so, is it because I did not install all of cygwin
>    at the time of installation ?   On my Windows 2000 host in a
>    cygwin window, I need to be able to perform a tar command
>    in the form:  tar cvf  /dev...(for tape device)  filename.
>
>    Any help in resloving this issue is most appreciated !


Did you read the first paragraph of the section on POSIX devices in the
User's Guide?

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806>

It applies to all the devices described in that section.

Also, to correct an incorrect implication in your statement above, the 
POSIX paths for these devices start with "/dev", not "/device".



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