Date sent: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:49:24 -0400
From: Rolf Grunsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [fpc-pascal] How to read VolumeID on a CD (or DVD)?
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> I am trying to read the VolumeID from a DVD (or a CD) and find that
>
> r := FindFirst(Drive, faVolumeID, Sr);
>
> Does not work (at least not with Win2000.) Not a surprise I suppose
> since this will not work in OS/2. So the question is, how do I do it?
> The only reference I can find in the documentation refers to
> FindFirst/Next which does not work.
>
> Is this something that has been left out?
Well, I'm not sure what you mean exactly. First of all, you're right
that FindFirst/Next doesn't provide VolumeID on anything other than
plain DOS (it's only emulated even under Dos, in fact). We don't
provide platform-independent function to read volume IDs in our RTL
(it wouldn't be really platform independent anyway).
If your reference to something "left out" was related to missing
documentation for such a function, then I'm sorry, but we don't
provide documentation for the complete platform APIs - you need to
refer to something like MSDN for Win32 documentation. However, being
no Win32 programmer myself, I found function GetVolumeInformation
while searching through sources of unit Windows - I guess this should
the right bet for you.
Hope this helps
Tomas
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