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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 12:31 AM
Subject: [GnuWin32-Users] dd: How to access devices like a: (was: texinfo-4.6 says: Terminal ... is not smart ...)
dd if=\\.\A:of=some_file bs=1k count=1440
With dd from the not yet released port of coreutils-5.2.1, this seems to work allright, although only under MS-Windows NT / 2000 / XP (see the description of CreateFile on MSDN). I think the behaviour of dd from the released fileutils is caused by its reading files in text mode, so that it stops at the first Ctl-Z.
Kees Zeelenberg
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