Question about the cpio-command

[Vince Hoffman]

wrong list realy (you want cygwin@cygwin.com for non X questions.)
however the (scsi) tape dev on cygwin is /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 (no rewind
version)
the /dev dir is virtual but ls /dev/st0 will show it is there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hinterplattner Wolfgang [mailto:whinterplattner@techsoft.at]
> Sent: 28 July 2003 10:07
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Question about the cpio-command
> 
> 
> I have a scsi-tapedrive on my local machine.
> How can I read from the tapedrive or write to the tapedrive 
> with the cpio-command?
> In HP-UX I have the device-file for my tape-drive ( for 
> exaple: /dev/rmt/0m )
> How can I access the tape-drive in cyqwin?
> 
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