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 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:05:11 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: treating drives as files Message-ID: <20050721170511.GO14376@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <9bbd2794050721090110c8d7d1 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <20050721161500 DOT GM14376 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <9bbd2794050721093732b6307f AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9bbd2794050721093732b6307f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:37:11AM -0700, Alex Goldman wrote: >On 7/21/05, Christopher Faylor 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. Right. Remember what Cygwin is trying to emulate? >Cygwin doesn't have /dev. This doesn't work. Actually, it does work. That's why I mentioned it. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> aaaspam AT sourceware DOT org Cygwin Co-Project Leader aaaspam AT duffek DOT com TimeSys, Inc. -- 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/