Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 19:10:47 -0500 To: Ethan Larson Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Variable-blocksize tapes -- fixed! Message-ID: <20000106191047.A32548@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Ethan Larson , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from almo@arthur.avalon.net on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 03:04:49PM -0600 On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 03:04:49PM -0600, Ethan Larson wrote: >Search the mailing list archive for "tape," and a weakness in NT becomes >apparent: problems with variable-blocksize tapes. > >I have solved this problem in Visual Basic with Win32 API calls, and I was >wondering if I might be able to help out and get Cygwin's dd working with >variable-blocklength tapes. > >Thanks for your time. Sure. This is an open-source project. Just make sure that you are using the most up-to-date snapshot. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com