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Re: treating drives as files


On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Alex Goldman wrote:

> On 7/21/05, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@XXXXXX.XXX> wrote:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > 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.

For the second sentence above ("Cygwin doesn't have /dev"), try

  ls -l /dev/fd0

See also
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html#using-specialnames>.

As for "This doesn't work.", did you try it?  If so, please read and
follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.

HTH,
	Igor
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