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Re: md5sum of a CD


On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:22:30PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> >From: Vince Hoffman Sent: 01 September 2003 11:37
> > Also see
> >http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
> >
> Duh! after 'mount -b //./q: /dev/scd0' all is rosy.

Don't do this.  Read the above document again, carefully.  Using mount
is unnecessary.  It was only necessary until Cygwin 1.3.3.   Please
read again, beginning with the paragraph starting with

  "Since Cygwin 1.3.4 raw devices are accessible from inside of Cygwin
   processes using fixed POSIX device names. [...]"

Corinna

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