Open cdrom device on windows

[manux]

Hi,

someone knows if there is a way to open the cdrom device on windows
with perl?
I found just about opening Serial ports (open P,"+>COM1") but nothing
about cdrom.
I tried to open /Devices/CdRom0, \\.\CdRom0 but it doesn't work.

Thanks

manux

P.S. what I'd like to do is to burn an iso image on a cd-r and verify
md5sum (on linux I would open /dev/cdrom)

 

[Kevin Collins]

Hi,

someone knows if there is a way to open the cdrom device on windows
with perl?
I found just about opening Serial ports (open P,"+>COM1") but nothing
about cdrom.
I tried to open /Devices/CdRom0, \\.\CdRom0 but it doesn't work.

Thanks

manux

P.S. what I'd like to do is to burn an iso image on a cd-r and verify
md5sum (on linux I would open /dev/cdrom)

Assming your CD-ROM's drive letter is E:, you would use:

open(CDR, "E:/") || die "can't open E: drive: $!";

Of course, this is to open the PATH at the root of the CD-ROM, not the actual
device...

Kevin