RE: md5sum of a CD

[Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>]

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



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hughes, Bill [mailto:Bill.Hughes@cox.co.uk]
> Sent: 01 September 2003 11:20
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: md5sum of a CD
> 
> 
> >On 2003/09/01 11:06 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:56:19AM -0300, romildo@uber.com.br wrote:
> >> Hello.
> >> 
> >> 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.
> 
> 
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