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 18:19:49 -0400 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: treating drives as files Message-Id: From: Brian Keener Reply-To: bkeenerReMoVeAnTiSpAm AT thesoftwaresource DOT com In-Reply-To: <9bbd2794050721093732b6307f@mail.gmail.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> Alex Goldman wrote: > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image > > This is what I had above. Cygwin doesn't have /dev. This does Actually Alex you said that you could do that in Unix not that you had tried it in Cygwin. You only mentioned if=/cygdrive/d and if="D:" Both of which I tried yesterday in an attempt to copy a Cd and then I found this : http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q4/msg00694.html by using google against cygwin.com (great tool by the way for research and answers). This also pointed me to another link about special names - which you might want to take a look at. bk -- 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/