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RE: DDS4 Tape Drive Access under cygwin
- From: "Mazzotta, Paul" <PMAZZOTT at SYSTEMS dot TEXTRON dot com>
- To: 'Cygwin List' <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:49:24 -0500
- Subject: RE: DDS4 Tape Drive Access under cygwin
Thank You so much for your help !
This is exactly what I was looking for !
I actually looked in the User's Guide but I
must have been too hasty as I missed this section.
Thanks again,
Paul :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh@cygwin.com]
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 1:31 PM
To: Mazzotta, Paul; 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
Subject: Re: DDS4 Tape Drive Access under cygwin
At 01:18 PM 3/8/2004, you wrote:
> To Whom it may concern;
>
> What mnemonic is used for a DDS4 tape drive
> under cygwin ? I know for Sun Solaris it is generally
> /dev/rmt/0. What I am trying to do is read/write a DDS4
> using a a DDS4 tape drive under cygwin. For Solaris, I
> would use something like the command:
> tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 pathname/filename
>
> Under cygwin what would /dev/rmt/0 likely be known as ?
> I am using Windows 2000 as my PC Operating System.
>
> Thank You for your help !
See the User's Guide:
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806>
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