From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and Hardware
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:22:01 GMT
Date: 2001-05-10T20:22:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JLCK6.91$j65.11856@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3AFACEC7.C2E67357@icn.siemens.de
In article <3AFACEC7.C2E67357@icn.siemens.de>, Alfred Hilscher says...
>
>Maybe the Windows API calls "CreateFile" and "DeviceIOControl" will be
>what you are looking for ? Look for this excerpt from MS-API
..
>"You can use the CreateFile function to open a disk drive or a partition
..
>\\.\A: Obtains a handle to drive A on the user's computer.
>\\.\C: Obtains a handle to drive C on the user's computer."
Interesting. One has to wonder if this would work with the standard Ada IO
operations (eg: Ada.Streams.Stream_IO)...
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-10 13:02 Ada and Hardware chris.danx
2001-05-10 13:36 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-10 14:00 ` chris.danx
2001-05-10 14:52 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-10 18:20 ` chris.danx
2001-05-10 20:01 ` Jerry van Dijk
2001-05-10 20:54 ` chris.danx
2001-05-10 13:54 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-10 14:10 ` chris.danx
2001-05-10 14:34 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-10 18:28 ` chris.danx
2001-05-14 7:40 ` Kretschmer, Matthias
2001-05-10 17:24 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-05-10 20:22 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-05-10 23:35 ` Jeff Creem
2001-05-10 23:58 ` Fraser Wilson
2001-05-11 1:54 ` Jeff Creem
2001-05-11 19:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-05-14 10:27 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-05-10 20:53 ` chris.danx
2001-05-11 21:45 ` GNAT for DOS chris.danx
2001-05-13 19:52 ` Ada and Hardware chris.danx
2001-05-14 0:18 ` Jeff Creem
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