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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 |