On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Alex Goldman wrote: > On 7/21/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
