I am an unfortunate windows programmer fairly new to the grand world of Perl. My question, and request for knowledge is this: Is there any way, within Perl and either Win32 or Win32API of checking to see if a user has a CD-RW or CD-R drive attached to his/her machine? I don't care if it's kludgy; the only way I can see to do this is to find the CD drive using 

while(@drives and (not $is_cdrw))
     {
      my $drive = pop(@drives);
          
      if(GetDriveType($drive) eq DRIVE_CDROM)
          {

     # see if it's writable by trying to write a file....
         $ok = CreateFile($drive + "void");
           }
      }
I am seeking a somewhat less clunky than the above...
emc

In reply to How to check to see if a CD drive is a writable on windows? by swampyankee

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