Re: Opening cdrom drive?

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From: Rich Wilkman
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:00

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John:

I think he wants to open the CD tray like you can do from the command line in
*nix.  Can't say I've seen it as a DOS app, though.

-Rich

"John McGrath [TeamB]" wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:04:11 -0700, Geromy Harper wrote:
>
> > is it possible to open the cdrom drive using java?
> > If so, how can it be done?  I haven't worked with API
> > calls very recently, so I'm kinda rusty.
>
> What exactly do you mean by "open"?  You can open files and get a list of
> the files in a directory.  This would work the same way for a CD-ROM as
> it would for any file or directory.  Just specify a path that specifies
> the CD-ROM drive.  The classes that handle these functions are in the
> package "java.io".
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> John McGrath [TeamB]
>
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