From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2003-10-10T01:50:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question regarding drives


"Sperberg, Roger" <roger.sperberg@aspenpublishers.com> wrote in message
news:212ACF1963F6D511832F0002A53FA3740119CF09@nycnt02.aspenpubl.com...
> Can someone advise me of how to find out within my Ruby program what
drives
> are on a system, and what type of drive (local hard drive, floppy, CD-ROM,
> etc.) they are?
>
> I'm working with a Win2000 system, but it might also be used by someone
> running Linux.

Windows only, WIN32OLE can be used to access the WMI COM objects (Windows
Management Instrumentation). These provide a whole range of system
information and control tools - even remote booting. See Microsoft  MSDN
documentation for details. A random google brings
http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/default.asp?topic=wmifaq

Mikkel