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Re: How can I determine if my program CD is in the drive of a Win32 mach

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Subject: Re: How can I determine if my program CD is in the drive of a Win32 machine?
From: George Clark <gaclark at sprynet dot com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:30:56 -0400
On 6/28/02 08:18, Karl Holmes wrote:

> I tried
> 
> n=volumeCount-1
> for i = 0 to n
>   s= volume(i).name
>   f=getfolderitem(volume(i).name).child("SFDev409") //SFDev409 is a
> file on top level of CDROM
>   if not(f =nil) then
>     if f.exists then
>       statictext1.text = "CDROM found"
>     end if
>   end if
> next
> 
> but couldn't get this to work even on a Mac, f was always nil.

There are probably Windows routines that can find the CD for you, but in the
meantime, try using volume(i).child("SFDev409").



George

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