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Check if a drive is a CD-ROM?
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10/03/2000 15:19:19
 
 
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10/03/2000 11:10:55
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Windows API functions
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00344236
Message ID:
00344385
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>I'd like to use GETFILE() to ask a user to find a specific file. Then I'd like to determine if that specified file is on a CD-ROM.
>
>Is there an API function that will return the drive type of a passed drive letter? If so, could someone please provide a code sample?
>
>TIA.

the WSH method would go like:

oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
oDrive = oFSO.GetDrive("D:")
?oDrive.DriveType

Drive type returns a numeric, where 4 corresponds to a CD-ROM.

George- since Ed is absent, may I slap you?
Erik Moore
Clientelligence
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