treating drives as files

[Christopher Faylor]

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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