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Re: Making tar diskette from Windows.
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:44:00PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 06:38 PM 2/5/2001, Fennacy, Jim wrote:
> >Using the tar utility on Windows I can make a tar-formatted file. However,
> >I want to make a tar diskette. And I can't figure out how. Does anyone
> >know how?
> >
> >Thanks - Jim.
>
>
>
> Corinna described this before on this list. You might try looking in the
> email archives. I believe you want to mount //./a: to /dev/fd0 but I'm
> not sure if that's all of it. Corinna's message will tell you everything
> you need to know though.
...and don't forget to look into the online documentation:
http://cygwin.com/docs.html
especially here:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN769
Corinna
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