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Re: useing /dev/fd0
- To: Dmitrii Pasechnik <dima at cs dot uu dot nl>
- Subject: Re: useing /dev/fd0
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:00:32 -0500
- CC: Jeremy Greiner <jeremy at win1 dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103231107370.4578-100000@sunshine.cs.uu.nl>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Dmitrii Pasechnik wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jeremy Greiner wrote:
>
> >I am running a script that is trying to access /dev/fd0 and it says it
> >doesn't exist.. how do I make such a file or point and actually have it
> >point to my floppy drive
>
> if your floppy is a: then just use
> //a
> to assess it.
> E.g.
> ls //a
> gives you the cygwin equivalent of
> dir a:
>
Please, don't use the //a deprecated method, it will be going away.
Either use the /cygdrive/a method or the a:/ method. You can also do
`mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /' and then do the /a method.
If you're looking for the Raw Device method check the documentation at
http://cygwin.com .
Earnie.
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