Re: detecting drives for windows and linux

2006-03-29 Thread Florian Diesch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Florian Diesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> >> are and want to do it anyway?) Linux puts the whole file system >> >> (including mounted iPods, ISOs and NTFS drives) in one hierarchy. >> > >> > Yes, but you may still want to distinguish (because

Re: detecting drives for windows and linux

2006-03-27 Thread Alex Martelli
Florian Diesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > >> are and want to do it anyway?) Linux puts the whole file system > >> (including mounted iPods, ISOs and NTFS drives) in one hierarchy. > > > > Yes, but you may still want to distinguish (because, for example, hard > > linking doesn't work acros

Re: detecting drives for windows and linux

2006-03-27 Thread Florian Diesch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> BWill wrote: >> >> > oh, I wasn't expecting a single solution for both platforms, just some >> > good solutions >> > >> > thanks >> >> Are you aware that this idea is somewhat foreign to Linux? (Maybe you >> are and

Re: detecting drives for windows and linux

2006-03-26 Thread Alex Martelli
Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BWill wrote: > > > oh, I wasn't expecting a single solution for both platforms, just some > > good solutions > > > > thanks > > Are you aware that this idea is somewhat foreign to Linux? (Maybe you > are and want to do it anyway?) Linux puts the whole file syste

Re: detecting drives for windows and linux

2006-03-26 Thread Max
BWill wrote: > oh, I wasn't expecting a single solution for both platforms, just some > good solutions > > thanks Are you aware that this idea is somewhat foreign to Linux? (Maybe you are and want to do it anyway?) Linux puts the whole file system (including mounted iPods, ISOs and NTFS drive

Re: detecting drives for windows and linux

2006-03-26 Thread Fulvio
Alle 03:17, domenica 26 marzo 2006, BWill ha scritto: > Hi, I'm writing a file browser, but I'm not sure how I could go about > detecting the drives available I was just asking a similar question some days back. I'm planning to try a file catalogger. I just remember something about Win32API, but

Re: detecting drives for windows and linux

2006-03-25 Thread BWill
Tim Golden wrote: > BWill wrote: >> Hi, I'm writing a file browser, but I'm not sure how I could go about >> detecting the drives available on windows and linux systems (preferably >> using the standard modules if possible). I guess I could just try to >> list root on each letter of the alphabet fo

Re: detecting drives for windows and linux

2006-03-25 Thread Tim Golden
BWill wrote: > Hi, I'm writing a file browser, but I'm not sure how I could go about > detecting the drives available on windows and linux systems (preferably > using the standard modules if possible). I guess I could just try to > list root on each letter of the alphabet for windows and see if it

detecting drives for windows and linux

2006-03-25 Thread BWill
Hi, I'm writing a file browser, but I'm not sure how I could go about detecting the drives available on windows and linux systems (preferably using the standard modules if possible). I guess I could just try to list root on each letter of the alphabet for windows and see if it works, but that s