Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news1.scei.co.jp!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: Ed Federmeyer Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.beginners Subject: Re: Contents of Boot CD Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 18:37:31 -0500 Organization: (no organization) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <336BCC3B.6713@charlie.cns.iit.edu> References: <336B62FC.B67@earthlink.net> <336b8d4c.18253753@205.149.189.29> <336BB762.1411@earthlink.net> Reply-To: fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: charlie.cns.iit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C-GZone (Win95; I) Jack Copper wrote: > 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. You can use 'siocons.exe' to get the '>>' prompt. It has a "dir" function that lets you browse the CD. I'm typing this from memory, since I still need to get a second serial card so I can have my modem and Yaroze active at the same time :-( I think if you 'dir cdrom:' it gives the top level directory. Then if you see a file without a ";" after it, that means it is a subdirectory. You can then 'dir cdrom:\data' (for example), and see the contents of the data directory (which contains still more subdirs, etc). Much easier than writing a program to do this! :-) Although a nice set of programmer freindly routines to get directory listings could be useful in the long run. EdF