Re: Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-02 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Claude Lemmel wrote: > > > >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine? > > >This returns false: > > > there is a directory "D:/" > > Yes but > there is a directory "D://" ... returns true > > That's a bug inherited by MetaCard from an inconstancy of MS-DOS. > > At

Re: Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-02 Thread Claude Lemmel
> >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine? > >This returns false: > > there is a directory "D:/" Yes but there is a directory "D://" ... returns true That's a bug inherited by MetaCard from an inconstancy of MS-DOS. At the beginning of the story, DOS returns "d:

Open Source tools [was Re: Referencing a Windows CD]

2000-02-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Geoff Canyon wrote: > They're looking for some things that don't currently exist in MetaCard > (source code management, bug tracking, etc.) and they want open source > (although the Python requirement is actually just that it be > scriptable with Python), but I still think these people need to

Re: Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-01 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Frank Pappajohn wrote: > > Don't you need to type "D:\" (backslash)? > > >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine? > >This returns false: > > > > there is a directory "D:/" > > > >However, this returns true: > > > > there is a file "D:/myFile" Haven't a clue. I tri

Re: Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-01 Thread Vikram Singh
download the external-collection stack from the xworlds site. it does what u want using a dll (on win). > >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine? > >This returns false: > > > > there is a directory "D:/" > > > >However, this returns true: > > > > there is

Re: Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
on 2/1/00 7:59 PM, Geoff Canyon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Department of Energy has awarded a grant of US $860,000 > to spend over the next two years on development of > easier-to-use software engineering tools for computational > scientists and engineers. All of the work will be Open > So

Re: Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-01 Thread Geoff Canyon
I saw this note on the Squeak (a SmallTalk-based development environment) mailing list, and thought it might be of interest to this group as well: The Department of Energy has awarded a grant of US $860,000 to spend over the next two years on development of easier-to-use software

Re: Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-01 Thread Frank Pappajohn
Don't you need to type "D:\" (backslash)? >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine? >This returns false: > > there is a directory "D:/" > >However, this returns true: > > there is a file "D:/myFile" > >Ideally, I'd rather not rely on the "D" designation at all and w

Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-01 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine? This returns false: there is a directory "D:/" However, this returns true: there is a file "D:/myFile" Ideally, I'd rather not rely on the "D" designation at all and would like to identify the CD path no matter what the l