Re: DD for windows.......

[Kevin Dahl]

Hey Bob.......

Here is what I got back from the CYGWIN folks.......

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Ah, this clarifies allot of things then.  The Cygwin site does not
support
this version of dd.  I'm not sure who should be supporting it but it's
not
Cygwin and it's not fileutils folks.  Looking at the zip file you
downloaded,
it's not even clear that this is a GNU version.  You need to find the 
maintainer of this software and ask them about the problem.  If you
need a 
working version of dd on NT/W2K/XP, you can install Cygwin's.  I'm
afraid 
that's the only advice this list can give you.

Good luck,

Larry Hall                              address@hidden 
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K-Dee

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>>> Bob Proulx <address@hidden> 4/3/2002 10:56:49 PM >>>

> When I try to copy an image from one floppy disk to another.......
> 
> dd if=\\.\A: of=D:\dd\boot.img........copies the image to a tmp
> directory just fine
> 
> but
> 
> dd if=D:\dd\boot.img of=\\.\A: ........says permission
denied........
> 
> (WinNT 4.0 SP6a.........NTFS......)

Hmm...  That does seem like it should work.  Try the Cygwin folks at
the following locations.

Bob

http://cygwin.com/ 

      Cygwin Home Page 

http://cygwin.com/faq/ 

      Cygwin FAQ. Most excellent! 

http://cygwin.com/bugs.html 

      Cygwin Bug Report Guidelines. This is a good reference for
      general bug reporting.