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| author | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2012-02-10 23:09:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2012-02-10 23:09:25 +0000 |
| commit | dd92db0e9896e4577f2309209920a58c109c1366 (patch) | |
| tree | 817b8bc5c9a546992721666804d9b814f3127514 /README.win32 | |
| parent | ce07b841b2ed5ac46a0472c0d9966d51176123dd (diff) | |
| download | sg3_utils-dd92db0e9896e4577f2309209920a58c109c1366.tar.gz | |
doco: improve sg_format.8 examples; other cleanups
git-svn-id: https://svn.bingwo.ca/repos/sg3_utils/trunk@438 6180dd3e-e324-4e3e-922d-17de1ae2f315
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diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 3468bd00..571d6219 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ Linux idiosyncrasies to be easily ported. A new package called 'ddpt' contains a utility with similar functionality to sg_dd and is available for Windows. +The Windows port uses the Microsoft SCSI Pass Through (SPT) interface. +It has two variants: "SPT" where data is double buffered; and "SPTD" +where data pointers to the user space are passed to the OS. Only Windows +2000 and later (i.e. not 95, 98 or ME) support SPT. + Two build environments are catered for: cygwin (see www.cygwin.com) and MinGW ("Minimalist GNU for Windows", see www.mingw.org). Both are based in the gcc compiler (although other C compilers should have little problem with @@ -209,5 +214,5 @@ problem by changing what it knows to be binary output files to "binary mode" with the setmode() Windows command. -Doug Gilbert -21st June 2011 +Douglas Gilbert +4th February 2012 |