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Re: treating drives as files
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:37:11AM -0700, Alex Goldman wrote:
>On 7/21/05, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.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.
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.
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