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Re: useing /dev/fd0


Why wl it be going away soon? as a new user to cygwin i find it very
useful...

Simon.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Dmitrii Pasechnik" <dima@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: "Jeremy Greiner" <jeremy@win1.net>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: useing /dev/fd0


> 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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