How to read an ISO CD image

[rachit.goyal]

Hi All,
In my VC7 application, I want to read particular binary file from CD
image. But that binary file exist within disk image(ISO image). How can
I read an ISO CD image using VC++?

Regards,
Rachit

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

ra**********@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All,
In my VC7 application, I want to read particular binary file from CD
image. But that binary file exist within disk image(ISO image). How
can I read an ISO CD image using VC++?

Your best bet may be to look at one of the SDKs that various CD burning
programs have. I know, for example, that Nero has (or at least, used to
have) an SDK that exposed that kind of functionality. There are likely to
be open-source implementations as well - do some research.

The alternative is to get the ISO-9660 spec (and the "Joliet" spec, and the
UDF spec, and ...) and write a CD filesystem reader yourself. There's
nothing in the Windows SDK or Visual Studio itself to do that.

-cd

[Ben Voigt]

"Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]" <cp*****************************@mvps.org.nospam >
wrote in message news:eB**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

ra**********@gmail.com wrote:

>Hi All,
In my VC7 application, I want to read particular binary file from CD
image. But that binary file exist within disk image(ISO image). How
can I read an ISO CD image using VC++?

Your best bet may be to look at one of the SDKs that various CD burning
programs have. I know, for example, that Nero has (or at least, used to
have) an SDK that exposed that kind of functionality. There are likely to
be open-source implementations as well - do some research.

For example http://7-zip.org/ can extract ISO files and comes with an API.

>
The alternative is to get the ISO-9660 spec (and the "Joliet" spec, and
the UDF spec, and ...) and write a CD filesystem reader yourself. There's
nothing in the Windows SDK or Visual Studio itself to do that.

-cd