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From: Jack Copper <impmeister@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Contents of Boot CD
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 07:40:41 -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

This is the THIRD time I've tried to respond to you... the newsgroup bit
bucket keeps eating messages.

Anyway, I went ahead and tried programmatic access, but have had no
success so far. I'm either doing something wrong (hmmm..) or there is a
bug in the library firstfile() function.

First, I tried what appeared to be the straightforward thing to do:

	struct DIRENTRY stBaseDirectory;
	firstfile( "cdrom:*", &stBaseDirectory);
This sends the playstation off into the weeds (reset city), as do
"cdrom:\\", "cdrom:\\*", and other variations.

However, some other permutations (e.g., "*", "\\*", "CDROM:\\")
resulted in an error message that listed devices (something to the
effect of:)
	* is not a valid device
	valid devices are:
	cdrom:
	tty:
	bu:
etc.
And, if in fact I use "bu10:*" as the name parameter, I get a reasonable
string back for the first "directory" (i.e., I have a memory card in
slot 2, and it has the configuration file on it)

Any insights?
Thanks,
Jack Copper