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Re: DDS4 Tape Drive Access under cygwin


At 01:18 PM 3/8/2004, you wrote:
>    To Whom it may concern;
>
>    What mnemonic is used for a DDS4 tape drive
>    under cygwin ?  I know for Sun Solaris it is generally
>    /dev/rmt/0.  What I am trying to do is read/write a DDS4
>    using a a DDS4 tape drive under cygwin.  For Solaris, I
>    would use something like the command:
>        tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 pathname/filename
>
>    Under cygwin what would /dev/rmt/0 likely be known as ?
>    I am using Windows 2000 as my PC Operating System.
>
>    Thank You for your help !


See the User's Guide:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806>


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