On Aug 30 17:10, Cary Lewis wrote: > I have a SCSI tape drive, and I can use tar to create archives on it: >> tar cvf /dev/st0 /bin >> tar tvf /dev/st0 >> but if I try to ssh into my cygwin box and try the same command, then I > get the following error: >> tar: opening archive "/dev/st0": The system cannot find the path > specified. Sure that you're running the same tar? I'm running my Cygwin stuff in an ssh session all the time and I have no problem accessing /dev/st0. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/