<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE>. Thanks. Also, top-posting reformatted.
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Beauchamp, Warren J (GE Comm Fin) wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Beauchamp, Warren J (GE Comm Fin) > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 9:57 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: cygwin cpio with tape support? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 9:34 AM > > To: Beauchamp, Warren J (GE Comm Fin) > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > Subject: Re: cygwin cpio with tape support? > > > > > 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 > > > > Hi Igor, > > > > dd appears to access the drive , but I get "dd: reading '/dev/st0': > > cannot allocate memory" > > > > I tried: dd -if=/dev/st0 of=test123.bin > > And: dd -if=/dev/st0 | cpio -i > > > > Thanks again, > > > > -Warren. > > Hi Igor, > > Looks like I needed to add the block size. > > "dd bs=5120 if=/dev/st0 of=test1.bin" works fine > > I'll try piping it to cpio next. Does the following syntax look right? > > "dd bs=5120 if=/dev/st0 | cpio -i" That's what Corinna replied 3 days ago in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00181.html>. As for the syntax, I'm not a dd or cpio expert, so I would have to consult the manpages, which you can do just as easily. 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/
