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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:37:11 -0700
From: Alex Goldman <alex DOT gman AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: treating drives as files
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On 7/21/05, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:01:57AM -0700, Alex Goldman wrote:
> >In UNIX, one can do things like
> >
> >dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image
> >
> >Is this possible in Cygwin?
> 
> Yes.  Here is the syntax:
> 
>   dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image

This is what I had above. Cygwin doesn't have /dev. This doesn't work.

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