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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:52:45 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ssh - no access to /dev/st0
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On Aug 30 17:10, Cary Lewis wrote:
> I have a SCSI tape drive, and I can use tar to create archives on it:
> 
> tar cvf /dev/st0 /bin
> 
> tar tvf /dev/st0
> 
> but if I try to ssh into my cygwin box and try the same command, then I
> get the following error:
> 
> tar: opening archive "/dev/st0": The system cannot find the path
> specified.

Sure that you're running the same tar?  I'm running my Cygwin stuff in an
ssh session all the time and I have no problem accessing /dev/st0.

Corinna

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