On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Mazzotta, Paul wrote: > To whom it may concern; > > According to the cygwin user's guide, tape drive devices > are mapped to /dev... or /device... . Shouldn't you be able > to see these directories from a cygwin window under the > / directory ? If so, is it because I did not install all of cygwin > at the time of installation ? On my Windows 2000 host in a > cygwin window, I need to be able to perform a tar command > in the form: tar cvf /dev...(for tape device) filename. > > Any help in resloving this issue is most appreciated ! > > Paul
Paul, Until Cygwin switches to mknod for devices, /dev will be a virtual filesystem in Cygwin (as are /proc, /cygdrive, etc). As such, it won't show up in the listing of the parent directory (i.e., /). What you need to do is create an actual directory for /dev, and the empty file entries for all of its contents to be able to 'ls' them. You can use a script I posted in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00353.html> for this purpose (it'll also create some Linux-style symlinks). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
