How to detect cdrom drive...

[M]

I searched the FAQ for this NG and found no answers to my question...

I'm writing an application in Java (I'm not a C programmer), however I
need to be able to detect WHICH drive (d:\, e:\ etc...) on a win2k
machine the CDROM drive is on. I assume that C or C++ can do this. The
C/C++ code will then be wrapped in a JNI layer to be used by the java
code.

Basically, all I want the C code to do is return a letter
corresponding to the drive the CDROM is on. Is there any code
available that does this?

thanks,

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

M <m_*******@hotm ail.com> spoke thus:

I searched the FAQ for this NG and found no answers to my question...
How about the welcome message?

http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/clc.welcome.txt
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html
http://benpfaff.org/writings/clc/off-topic.html
I'm writing an application in Java (I'm not a C programmer), however I
need to be able to detect WHICH drive (d:\, e:\ etc...) on a win2k
machine the CDROM drive is on. I assume that C or C++ can do this. The

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^
Not without extensions specific to your system, which are not
discussed on this newsgroup.

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[Allan Bruce]

"M" <m_*******@hotm ail.com> wrote in message
news:69******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

I searched the FAQ for this NG and found no answers to my question...

I'm writing an application in Java (I'm not a C programmer), however I
need to be able to detect WHICH drive (d:\, e:\ etc...) on a win2k
machine the CDROM drive is on. I assume that C or C++ can do this. The
C/C++ code will then be wrapped in a JNI layer to be used by the java
code.

Basically, all I want the C code to do is return a letter
corresponding to the drive the CDROM is on. Is there any code
available that does this?

thanks,

Maybe if you do something like this:

#include "stdio"

void main (void)
{
char *pathToCD;
if (pathToCD)
readFromCD(path ToCD);
}

snigger...

[Madhur Ahuja]

Your question is off topic.
Please ask in:
comp.lang.java. programmer
comp.lant.java. help
comp.os.ms-windows.program mer.win32

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"M" <m_*******@hotm ail.com> wrote in message
news:69******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

I searched the FAQ for this NG and found no answers to my question...

I'm writing an application in Java (I'm not a C programmer), however I
need to be able to detect WHICH drive (d:\, e:\ etc...) on a win2k
machine the CDROM drive is on. I assume that C or C++ can do this. The
C/C++ code will then be wrapped in a JNI layer to be used by the java
code.

Basically, all I want the C code to do is return a letter
corresponding to the drive the CDROM is on. Is there any code
available that does this?

thanks,