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accessing the hard disc using c++

May 2nd, 2007

hello there, im new in c++...i need to know how to access files in the hard disk...im having a priject of controling hdd using linux and c++...my task is to create a program in c++ using linux that get's a file from the hard disk, check's if the memory of the cd is full, then write the files in cd...help pls...

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Re: accessing the hard disc using c++

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look up iostream

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Re: accessing the hard disc using c++

May 2nd, 2007

getting files from HD is pretty easy -- as Walt said. Writing to CD is much more problematic because you can't use standard stream io on it but go through the CD's device driver. I don't know how that's done because I always use a commercial cd writer program.

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Grab the source code for one of the existing CD writer applications for Linux, and study it thoroughly.

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