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Re: treating drives as files
Alex Goldman wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image
>
> This is what I had above. Cygwin doesn't have /dev. This does
Actually Alex you said that you could do that in Unix not that you had tried it
in Cygwin. You only mentioned if=/cygdrive/d and if="D:"
Both of which I tried yesterday in an attempt to copy a Cd and then I found
this :
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q4/msg00694.html
by using google against cygwin.com (great tool by the way for research and
answers). This also pointed me to another link about special names - which you
might want to take a look at.
bk
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