I've installed Cygwin on NT4 in order to use tar to do some backups. I've
got a 15/30 Gb DLT tape drive hooked up to the machine.
My understanding is that tar will need to refer to the tape device -- yet
there is no /dev directory. Is this common? Is there some other step I
need to take to
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-Original Message-
From: Vince Hoffman
Sent: 21 November 2002 16:16
To: 'Mack, Daemian'
Subject: RE: No /dev Files for Tape Backup to Use?
The /dev folder has various posix devices, but they are interperated by the
cygwin dll much
Mack, Daemian wrote:
I've installed Cygwin on NT4 in order to use tar to do some backups. I've
got a 15/30 Gb DLT tape drive hooked up to the machine.
My understanding is that tar will need to refer to the tape device -- yet
there is no /dev directory. Is this common? Is there some
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