RE: md5sum of a CD

["Hughes, Bill" <Bill dot Hughes at cox dot co dot uk>]

>> From: Hughes, Bill Sent: 01 September 2003 11:20
>> 
>> >On 2003/09/01 11:06 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >>On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:56:19AM -0300, romildo@xxxx wrote:
>> >> How can one find the md5sum of a CD
>> >> in Windows?
>> >> In Linux, one can do
>> >>   $ md5sum /dev/cdrom
>> >$ md5sum /dev/scdX
>> >with X in 0..15
>> 
>> I don't have a /dev!
>> My CD is mounted 
>> q: on /cdrom type system (binmode)
>> It all seems to work, should I be doing something different?
>> 
>> It's actually a CDRW, I couldn't see in the archive or docs 
>> if cd writing is
>> supported under cygwin, I did look.
>> 
>From: Vince Hoffman Sent: 01 September 2003 11:37
>
>The /dev directory is a "virtual" directory, much like the /proc directory.
>if you do a ls /dev/scd0 you should get a result. Also see
>http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
>
Duh! after 'mount -b //./q: /dev/scd0' all is rosy.
Thank you - I _have_ rtfm, but I expect my eyes glazed over as I probably
didn't understand it all at the time. It's one of those probably
insurmountable problems I suppose (not thick users) - how to cross reference
a document under any reasonable heading that could be looked for? I may be
making excuses (but _not_ complaining) but "Special Filenames/Posix
Devices/" wasn't the first place I thought to look for access to cdrom -
this is likely because I've spent too much time on windows and not enough on
unix/linux. I do really like cygwin as I would have a much harder time
without it.


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