CD update... was: get system profile

[Klaus Major]

Hi Shari,

>> Shari:
>>
>> If you simply want to ensure the program is on a CD, a simple test is 
>> to try writing a temp file to the same directory as the program . If 
>> the result is not empty, then it's locked and thus on CD. If the 
>> result is empty, delete the temp file and report that the program 
>> will only run from CD.
>>
>> Don't know if this is helpful.
>>
>> /H
>
> Actually they must install the program on their hard drive to run it, 
> but it does need the CD to run.
>
> Things are not going well with the CD so far.  I had to give up on the 
> query for the CD, and use another (very poor) option. Dissatisfied.  
> And where I had a nice image in the background of the folder, the 
> image turned to mud on Windows.  I had chopped up an image into icons 
> for the folder backdrop.  Beautiful on Mac, horrible on Windows.  At 
> this moment, I should have at least 25 CD's burned. Tomorrow I should 
> be packing, and taking care of other things.  I expected to have this 
> done two weeks ago... *sigh*
>
> Shari C

why don't you try the old Tiviah external collection as i posted 
yesterday???

It is free now and does exactly what you need:

It will return a list of available CD-ROM drives WITHOUT an error of 
what kind ever...

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Regards

Klaus Major
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