On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Beauchamp, Warren J wrote: > Hi, > > I have poked around on the web trying to find this for a while and am > out of luck. > > I have a DAT drive on a Win2000 server, have installed the latest build > of cygwin(1.5.20), and am able to mount and access the DAT drive with mt > and tar but not with cpio. There's a cpio archive on the tape I need to > read. I have seen references to cygwin builds of cpio that contain tape > support. Can you point me in the right direction for the current > binaries?
Can you access the drive with dd? You should be able to use dd to write the archive to stdout, and then pipe it to "cpio -i"... HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/