Open driver?

[Michael J. Lew]

Has anyone had any success with the "open driver" command on a Mac 
(OS 9.2)? I want to read data from the USB port and it certainly 
looks like the open driver command is what I want. However,  what are 
the drivers? Where are they? The docs make it sound like I can just 
call them by name (i.e. no mucking about with paths) but none of the 
files in my Extensions folder will open, even those that have 
"driver" in their names. Any file I name in the open driver command 
returns the "Can't open that file" message.

Specifically I would like to read data from my Griffin iMic USB 
adaptor. It doesn't come with any drivers, but uses the built in 
Audio Manager and the "Sound" control panel. I assume that the Audio 
manager is a driver and that I should be able to read from it with 
the driver commands. That doesn't seem to be the case.

I have fiddled a bit with OS X because the docs say that "On OS X and 
Unix systems, you can obtain a list of available devices by reading 
the file "/dev/tty"." but I can't find such a file, or even a "dev/" 
directory. Any additional info would be helpful because I feel a bit 
lost.

-- 
Michael J. Lew

Senior Lecturer
Department of Pharmacology
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010
Victoria
Australia

Phone +613 8344 8304

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