CDROM disk serial number

[Ken Ray]

Tom,

You can do:

  put shell("system_profiler SPIDEDataType") into tData

and then parse tData for the serial number.

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Thomas McCarthy
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 2:07 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: CDROM disk serial number
> 
> 
> 
> A year or two ago there was a thread about this. There was a 
> solution for Windows machines (Thanks Ken!) and a possible 
> solution for Macs, using the system profiler.
> 
> My Mac 10.3 does not list the cd's serial number (just a 
> blank line) Also the system profiler is slow, is there a 
> shell command we could run?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Tom McCarthy
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