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attn: hadji (ref: Windows IP lookups) by bobmon2007-02-16 06:04:40
  Threadjack! Linux CLI tools for Windows by CynicalRyan2007-02-16 06:18:16
    Native Unix Tools by Nerzul2007-02-16 06:44:54
      Did some digging by madjo2007-02-16 06:53:53
        Hey, that is pretty sharp but it seems to be... by CALL-1982007-02-16 09:11:46
          Ah, I wasn't thinking. awk is listed as gawk. by CALL-1982007-02-16 09:14:30
            Nevermind, I see shell now too. by CALL-1982007-02-16 09:16:07
              Yes. by CynicalRyan2007-02-16 09:46:14
                There has got to be some way. by CALL-1982007-02-16 10:08:54
                  Neither do I. But I know that the device handling by CynicalRyan 2007-02-16 10:17:30
of Windows and *nix are very different. *nix style OSes use the /dev filesystem to handle (duh!) device adressing. And Windows does that very differently, even for different devices.

And yes, I know there are drivers for other filesystems, but /dev is not a "real" filesystem per se, only a human readable representation of the devices.
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                    Doesn't Windows have a VFS equivilant... by CALL-1982007-02-16 10:54:48

 

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