On Friday 8 Sep 00, Martin Sapsed writes:
> Peter Reif wrote:
> >
> > I am using rsync for Win9x with the cygwin1.dll.
> > I want to sync two partitions locally. If I type
> >
> > rsync \dir1\ d:\dir2\
> >
> > rsync tries to make a rsh-connection to host "d".
> > I think one solution is to mount the D partition with cygwin.
> > Is there a simpler way?
>
> You need something more like
>
> rsync /dir1/ //d/dir2/
>
> (although I get confused about the trailing slashes so try a few
> things!)
Peter, you don't say which version of Cygwin you are using. In recent
releases, //d/dir2 is deprecated. You can use /cygdrive/d/dir2 if d:\
(or d:\dir2) is not already mounted.
Apologies if this is considered off-topic for non-Cygwin users.
Cheers,
David
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