detecting hard drives and other volumes

[Stephen Fraser]

Hi,

I'm using Carbon / OSX / C++ ...

Is there a way of getting information about each volume (hard drive / CDROM
/ Network connection) at run time? In particular, I'd like to obtain the
number of volumes, the name of each volume, and if possible, the type of the
drive (HDD / CD / Network / Whatever).

Also, assuming that every drive had a file on it, "myfile.txt", how could I
access that file from within my code. Normally, if the file is in the
curerent directory, I'd say
handle = open ("myfile.txt");
....
close(handle);

but how do I construct a path to direct it to another volume?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

- Stephen Fraser

[Sean McBride]

In article <3f42d770$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au>,
"Stephen Fraser" <fraserq1@iprimus.com.au> wrote:

> Is there a way of getting information about each volume (hard drive / CDROM
> / Network connection) at run time? In particular, I'd like to obtain the
> number of volumes, the name of each volume, and if possible, the type of the
> drive (HDD / CD / Network / Whatever).

I suspect MoreFilesX might do some of that.