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From: Maynard Philbrook
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:04

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MCI !
 no, not the phone company! :))
any ways, in your mmsystem.h file.
and look in your mmedia.hlp file or
MCI interface..
 basicly you open a command channel and thus you can enumber devices
send commands to them ext...
open the door, close the door , spin up the platter, change TV channels on

VCR devices etc..

John Hawk wrote:

> I'm looking for a VCL library I can use to control a USB CD/DVD writer.
> I need to do simple things like disk detection, open/close drawer.
> I also need to detect media type, format, etc.
>
> Failing to find such a library, I am looking for suggestions on ways to
> access the device such as win32 api's....
>
> Using C++ builder 5.
>
> Thanks all - John

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