From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Subject: Re: Different devices 2 Dec 1996 15:13:32 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612021255.NAA00903.cygnus.gnu-win32@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <199611272113.AA06254@egate.citicorp.com> from John Kelly at "Nov 27, 96 04:13:08 pm" Original-To: john.kelly@citicorp.com (John Kelly) Original-Cc: Gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > I just recently downloaded the GNU utilities on my NT machine and found out > that > every utility (ls, mv,) works ok except that I cannot reference another > device (ie: cp filea a:/). I have tried all types of variations to the > device name but it still takes it as a filename or directory specification. > Am I missing something??? Use cp file //a/file or cp file //a > > Regards, > John > > - > For help on using this list, send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".