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From: Jack Copper <impmeister@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Contents of Boot CD
Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 18:08:34 -0400
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Mario Perdue wrote:
> 
 
> Well, you could put the CD into your PC's CDROM drive browse it to see
> what's there. You could also look in the PSX/DATA directory where you
> installed the NY dev system. The files are all there as well.
> 
> Mario

Sigh... I never think of CDs in terms of ISO standard... I was thinking
the boot CD was some wierd format...

HOWEVER, I went ahead and started to write a function to
programmatically browse... and have yet to get anything to work.

I tried what seemed to be the straightforward thing to do:

struct DIRENTRY stBaseDirectory;
firstfile("cdrom:\\*", &stBaseDirectory); // note lower case cdrom:

This sends the playstation off into the weeds. I've tried various other
permutations for the name parameter, but all either lock up the
playstation or cause an error message but no directory info.

For example :

firstfile("*", &stBaseDirectory);

causes an error message something like
* is not a known device.
Known device types are:
  tty:	 SIO console
  cdrom: CD-ROM
  bu:    MEMORY CARD
  mem:	 (reserved)
  cdx:	 (reserved)

If I use CDROM: (upper case) the error message says CDROM is not a valid
device .... (note that there is NO : after the CDROM).

I I use bu10: as the name parameter, I get something valid back (I have
a memory card in slot two).

So, what am I doing wrong for the CD??

Thanks.
Jack Copper