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From: Jack Copper <impmeister@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Contents of Boot CD
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 20:50:37 -0400
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Ed Federmeyer wrote (among other things):
> 
> 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

I spent some more time trying to access the CD programmatically, to no
avail. Either I'm missing something (likely), or there is a bug in
firstfile() that prevents it from recognizing the * wildcard when
applied to the CD ROM.

BTW, I could swear I posted the details yesterday, but I don't see the
post anywhere.. so at the risk of duplication:

	struct DIRENTRY stBaseDirctory;
	firstfile("cdrom:\\*", &stDirectory );

sends the playstation off into the weeds (reset city...)
using simply * as the name parameter causes the playstation to generate
an error message to the effect that * is not a  valid device, along with
a list of valid devices (of which, cdrom: is one!)

using UPPER case CDROM: also generated an error message, but the invalid
device in the string was CDROM (WITHOUT the : that was used with the
name!)

Various other names yield similar wierd results; however, using another
device from the valid list (i.e., bu10:*) works.. I get a reasonable
ASCII string for a "file" on the memory card in slot 2.

This is increasingly bothersome- I'd like to know how to reliably get to
the drive.. If and when I do (with a little help from my friends...) I'd
be happy to post whatever I come up with.

Insights??

Jack Copper