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Operating Systems Solaris Newbie to Solaris needs HELP!!! Post 302754973 by runell on Friday 11th of January 2013 02:32:15 PM
Old 01-11-2013
Thanks DustinT for your info, i do have VM Workstation and am kinda playing along with it though sometimes the examples from the books do not work which can be quite frustrating but yes will play along with it.

Are the books am using really a good reference for learning Solaris?

Thank in advance?
 

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CDCTRL(1)							   User Commands							 CDCTRL(1)

NAME
cdctrl - command line CDROM control SYNOPSIS
cdctrl [device] cdctrl -c [device] cdctrl -c cdctrl [-V|-?|-h] DESCRIPTION
cdctrl command is a program that opens a CDROM device and may be used for interactive control of the CDROM including play starting at a track, next track, previous track, stop, pause, display info, display CDROM status, and display CDROM directory. This program may be used as a daemon to control an audio CDROM device. The commands to the cdctrl command are: device Open CDROM device. -V Print out version and build information. -h Display help. -v Display help. -D Enable runtime debugging. -c Output CR-LF at end of each line, not LF. By default, cdctrl opens /dev/cdrom, but does not start playing. Output is to standard output with each line terminated by a linefeed (LF). Commands to cdctrl are: 1 Play first track, start playing. s Stop playing. p Pause playing. r Resume playing. e Eject CDROM. c Close CDROM tray. i Display info string. d Display directory. - Play previous track. + Play next track. When on last track, play first track. [1..99] Play track 1..99. ? Display help screen. q Quit. Each command results in one or multiple lines of output to stdout, followed by an info string, followed by END. The format of the info string is: CMD cmd-name cd-status track abs-time rel-time cmd-name := {play, stop, ... quit} from above list cd-status := {invalid, play, paused} cd-status += {completed, error, no_status} track := {1..99} CD track abs-time := HH:MM:SS elapsed since CD start rel-time := HH:MM:SS elapsed since track start FILES
/dev/cdrom - default cdrom device ENVIRONMENT
CDTOOLDEV - cdrom device, overrides compile time defaults SEE ALSO
cdplay(1) AUTHORS
Main code: Thomas Insel <tinsel@tinsel.org> Enhancements: Sven Oliver Moll <smol0075@rz.uni-hildesheim.de> cdctrl extensions: Wade Hampton <whampton@staffnet.com> CDTOOL
29-July-2004 CDCTRL(1)
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